Calculator Use

Point to Line Distance Calculator is a free online tool that displays the distance from the point to the line. This online Point to Line Distance Calculator tool performs the calculation faster, and it displays the result in a fraction of seconds.

The procedure to use the Point to Line Distance Calculator is as follows:

Step 1: Enter a values in the input field

Step 2: Now click the "Calculate" button to get the result

Step 3: Finally, The distance from the point to the line will be displayed in the output field

What is the distance from the point to the line?

The length of the perpendicular segment from a point outside the line to the line is called the distance from the point to the line.

In Euclidean geometry, the distance from a point to a line is the shortest distance from a given point to any point on an infinite straight line. It is the perpendicular distance of the point to the line, the length of the line segment which joins the point to nearest point on the line.

How to calculate the distance from the point to the line?

Suppose the equation of the straight line L is Ax+By+C=0, the coordinates of the point P are (Xo, Yo), then the distance from the point P to the straight line L is： d=│AXo+BYo+C│ / √（A²+B²）.

Application of distance from point to line

Knowing the distance from a point to a line can be useful in various situations—for example, finding the shortest distance to reach a road, quantifying the scatter on a graph, etc. In Deming regression, a type of linear curve fitting, if the dependent and independent variables have equal variance this results in orthogonal regression in which the degree of imperfection of the fit is measured for each data point as the perpendicular distance of the point from the regression line.