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Started by TheUnbeliever October 30, 2007 06:08 PM

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TheUnbeliever

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October 30, 2007 06:08 PM

I'm trying to remember the name of an algorithm: it was a sort of poor (by design) hash that could be used to hash words to find similarly-spelt words (for suggested replacements for misspelt words in a word processor, say). I vaguely remember it possibly being Knuth's work. Anyone have a clue what I'm thinking of?

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fnm

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October 30, 2007 06:20 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance ?

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hughiecoles

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October 30, 2007 08:52 PM

http://www.nist.gov/dads/

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Forfaox

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October 31, 2007 03:33 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex is what you are looking for I think.

TheUnbeliever

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October 31, 2007 10:43 AM

Quote:Original post by Forfaox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex is what you are looking for I think.

It is indeed — not Knuth's work, but covered in TAOCP.

Thanks; and for the other two links, as well. I've come across the DADS one before, but never looked for the root directory — cheers!

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