Python 2, 48 bytes ================= A straight forward solution. The function expects 2 points as sequences of numbers, and returns the distance between them. lambda a,b:sum((d-e)**2for d,e in zip(a,b))**.5 Example: >>> f([13.37,2,6,-7], [1.2,3.4,-5.6,7.89]) 22.50202213135522