Does find nearest use geodesic when calculating distances?

[eltorr0]

Determining true distances accounting for earth curvature, does anyone know if the find nearest tool use a geodesic approach for determining distance from one spatial object to the next?

[StephenR]

@RobertB or @JeradR might be able to answer your question.

[RobertB · Accepted solution]

Yes.  Distance calculations in the FindNearest tool (as well as the Distance tool and formula function) use great-circle distance.