“…A bifunction ρ: Z × Z ⟶ R + is a b ∼ metric on Z if there exists a κ ∈ R with κ ≥ 1 such that for u, y, z in Z, ρ satisfies (i) a 1 − ρ(u, y) � 0 if u � y (ii) a 2 − ρ(u, y) � ρ(y, u) (iii) a 3 − ρ(u, y) ≤ κρ(u, z) + κρ(z, y) e pair (Z, ρ) is known as b ∼ metric space (s) (shortly as b ∼ MS (s)) with b-metric constant κ. Clearly, for κ � 1, (Z, ρ) is a metric space, but there are b ∼ metrics that are not metrics (see [4,7,8]).…”