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<p>and the <a href="page.php?w=energy_distance">energy distance</a>.</p>

<p><big>Edit distances</big></p>
<p>In <a href="page.php?w=computer_science">computer science</a>, an <a href="page.php?w=edit_distance">edit distance</a> or <a href="page.php?w=string_metric">string metric</a> between two <a href="page.php?w=string_%28computer_science%29">strings</a> measures how different they are. For example, the words "dog" and "dot", which differ by just one letter, are closer than "dog" and "cat", which have no letters in common.  This idea is used in <a href="page.php?w=spell_checker">spell checker</a>s</p><p>
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