ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

F-seminorm

An f-seminorm is a fancy way of measuring how big something is.

Imagine you have a bunch of blocks of different sizes, and you want to know which one is the biggest. If you just look at the number of blocks, that won't tell you what you need to know. You need to measure the blocks in a way that takes into account their size and shape.

The f-seminorm is like a special ruler that can measure the size of these blocks based on how they are arranged. It looks at how far apart the different parts of the block are, and adds up all these measurements to get a total size.

For example, imagine you have a big block and a small block, but the big block is hollow on the inside. If you just measured them based on how many blocks they each have, you might say they are both the same size. But if you used an f-seminorm, you would see that the big block is actually much bigger because of all the empty space inside.

So the f-seminorm is a tool for measuring things that takes into account their shape and structure, and can help you compare things that might look the same on the surface but are actually different sizes.