That won't work, as the distance between 0101 and 0810 is canonically 13. Regular geometry won't work on a hex grid defined that way. For example say we know that 
distance(0101,0201) = 1 and
distance(0101,0302) = 2 and
distance(0201,0302) = 1 

then we want to define an additional point 0202 that:
distance(0101,0202) = 2 and
distance(0201,0202) = 1 and 
distance(0302,0202) = 1 

that point 0202 doesn't exist in euclidean planar geometry. I believe there is a variant of geometry called taxicab geometry which deals with things like this.


On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 2:14 PM shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
On 27 Mar 2020 at 18:32, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:

> Given a standard Traveller subsector, with coordinates 0101 to 0810,
> alternate columns staggered, what's the formula/algorithm to calculate
> the jump distance between two hexes?

Google: distance between hexes

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