Talk:Most frequent k chars distance

What is this?

This is a terrible write-up. Please try to define terms using plain English or math formulas, not some identifiers from a piece of sample code. Also this looks identical to the linked WP page except the code, which was removed by another WP editor. What's the purpose for this copy/paste? --Ledrug (talk) 02:05, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Prank Page?

This is quite possibly the worst "similarity" function I have ever encountered and wonder if this is just a prank to see if someone can get something completely bogus published. The results table is inconsistent with the pseudo code. It is difficult to determine an algorithm that will give those results for the given inputs. Strings like 'iiii' and 'Mississippi' would rank as having a much shorter "distance" (whatever that means in this context) than identical strings like 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' and 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'. Which may be useful information... but this seems like an awfully convoluted way to obtain it. --Thundergnat (talk) 01:31, 24 March 2014 (UTC)