Using a line integral to finding a function for the distance between two points on a sphere

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Per the title, suppose in R 3 we have a unit sphere. Two vectors intersect that sphere at two points.

I know the distance between two points can be found as a function of the angle between the two vectors using a cross product, or with trig given the angle however, I'm looking for a line integral solution that can be scaled to a similar structure in R 4.