edit distance
Edit distance, also known as Levenshtein distance, is a mathematical measure of the similarity between two strings of characters. It is defined as the minimum number of single character editing operations (insertions, deletions, or substitutions) required to transform one string into another. The edit distance is used extensively in computer science, natural language processing, and bioinformatics for tasks such as spelling correction, DNA sequence analysis, and machine translation.
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