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Levenshtein string distance

(definition)

Definition: See Levenshtein distance.

Author: CRC-A


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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "Levenshtein string distance", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed. 15 May 2019. (accessed TODAY) Available from: https://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/LevenshteinStringDistance.html