It's a lot of computation, granted, but I just wanted to point out that it wasn't completely ludicrous. The proposed algorithm doesn't work anyway since there a

It's a lot of computation, granted, but I just wanted to point out that it wasn't completely ludicrous. The proposed algorithm doesn't work anyway since there are no non-degenerate hash functions that map all words within D edits of each other to the same hash value (as I pointed out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158942).