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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hamming distance: "covfefe" vs "coffee" vs "coverage"
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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.