Is distance a virtual quantity?

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Displacement, being a vector quantity, must give attention to direction. ...Vector quantities such as displacement are direction aware.Scalar quantities such as distance are ignorant of direction. In determining the overall distance traveled by the physics teachers, the various directions of motion can be ignored

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