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Very elementary article and author should change title to “Introduction to Levantine’s distance”. Approximate string matching is very wide field and there are m

Very elementary article and author should change title to “Introduction to Levantine’s distance”. Approximate string matching is very wide field and there are many much more efficient ways than Levantine’s distance.

ofrzeta 8y ago
It's "Levenshtein", named after the Soviet mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein.
- lohoban 8y ago
  I'm sure, sytelus has written many non-elementary articles on the subject. So, if he says "Levantine", then it has to be Levantine.