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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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Understanding the heuristic used for approximate string searching through an FSA
Those two statements are correlated: "giving priority to the highest word position" is the same as "the node that has advanced farthest in the word is given priority".
This appears to be why the alg …
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