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The edit distance (also: Levenshtein distance) between two strings measures the number of insertions and deletions it takes to convert one string to another.

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How does editing software (like Microsoft word or Gmail) pick the 2nd string to compare in L...

I just tried and found that the spelling checker on my phone finds a perfectly fine replacement for “gekki wirkd”. Look at your keyboard, and it is obvious. A good spelling checker does much better th …
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