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Re: Hamming distance: "covfefe" vs "coffee" vs "coverage"

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From Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.lang.clipper
Subject Re: Hamming distance: "covfefe" vs "coffee" vs "coverage"
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Date 2017-06-07 20:42 +0100
Message-ID <871sqv60uv.fsf@gmail.com> (permalink)

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acc <email@farlocca.it> writes:

> Il 07/06/2017 16.49, Mr. Man-wai Chang ha scritto:
>
>> "covfefe" vs "coffee" vs "coverage"
>>
>> It's still a better explanation than "coverage". I think it's called
>> Hamming Distance.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

In Levenshtein distance COFFEE is much the closer word.
The reason people think its COVERAGE is from the context.

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Hamming distance: "covfefe" vs "coffee" vs "coverage" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 22:49 +0800
  Re: Hamming distance: "covfefe" vs "coffee" vs "coverage" acc <email@farlocca.it> - 2017-06-07 17:55 +0200
    Re: Hamming distance: "covfefe" vs "coffee" vs "coverage" Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 20:42 +0100
    Re: Hamming distance: "covfefe" vs "coffee" vs "coverage" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 22:05 +0800

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