James Turner (Turnerj) • 2/7/2020

Levenshtein Distance (Part 1: What is it?)

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This article introduces the Levenshtein Distance algorithm, which calculates the edit distance between two strings based on inserts, deletions, and substitutions. It explains the concept, provides a step-by-step calculation example using 'Saturday' and 'Sunday', and discusses its computational complexity (O(n*m)) and applications like spell-checking.

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