From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2010-12-15T22:45:55+09:00
Subject: Re: do your bit for my mental health - how to find the difference between two strings?

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:25 AM, thunk <gmkoller@gmail.com> wrote:

> I did not expect to have somebody call me out and tell me the approach
> was totally off the mark, and make the completely UNFOUNDED (and
> untested) statement that the code does not work.

It was me, not Ryan, who said it didn't work, and of course I tested it
before making that comment.

Or are you saying that you believe the Levenshtein distance between
"foo" and "food" is actually 2?

I would expect it to be 1, and that's also what a Levenshtein example
implementation in another language[1] gives me.

[1] http://www.merriampark.com/ldperl.htm

But as I said, I'm no mathematician  :-)

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