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{{Quote frame|It then finds the point that is farthest from the line segment...}}
In the pseudocode section this is interpreted to mean perpendicular distance from a point to a line <code>perpendicularDistance(PointList[i], Line(PointList[1], PointList[end]))</code>.
An alternative interpretation, one which i believe is correct, is shortest distance from a point to a line segment (see also [https://karthaus.nl/rdp/ this]). The
== Visvalingam’s algorithm ==
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