Manhattan Distances in XQuery

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Manhattan Distances in XQuery

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Last edited Feb 14, 2018

Created on Feb 14, 2018

This example calculates a position on a Ulam-style spiral using a recursive grid-building function in XQuery, then extracts the value at index 361527 to display a single Manhattan distance. It constructs coordinate cells as arrays and repeatedly translates them, demonstrating recursive list manipulation and array indexing in XQuery. The code computes the result without any external visualization library, relying purely on functional sequence operations and array constructors for the mathematical derivation.

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