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:::::::Adding ''[[Levenshtein distance]] of one'' to the task description might aid both types of searches whilst preserving the original aim of the task. It would, however, invalidatet hose examples that did not check for a single deletion of a character. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 16:07, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
::::::::Well, in that case, we may as well change the name to [[Levenshtein_distance|Levenshtein distance... again]] and then delete it for being a duplicate task. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 22:55, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
==Committeeperson and committeepeople==
Regarding the suggested use of the Hamming distance and making the task be find the words whose Hamming distance is 1, if I read the Wikipedia article (and its Python sample code) correctly, the Hamming distance between "committeeperson" and "committeepeople" isn't 1, yet a number of samples show this pair? --[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 15:14, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
:The unixdict.txt I have, doesn't contain "committeepeople", however, using a fiie that does, the AWK and C samples don't find "committeeperson" and "committeepeople", yet show it in theirt output. I also can't see how the Ada sample code would find that match either, though the output claims it does. I haven't looked at other samples that show this pair. --[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 15:33, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
::|Looking through the page history, it seems that someone didn't like "committeewoman" and "committeewomen" and made a global change - back in 2021. I'm about to restore the originals. --[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 15:51, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
:::Restored. --[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 16:19, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
::::How very odd! It's actually even worse than you thought as "congresswoman" and "councilwoman"have also been changed. Do you want to restore them or shall I? [[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 16:40, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
:::::I should have noticed that ! Feel free to change them back. Either it was an "April fool" joke or someone being politically correct, I assume... --[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 16:54, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
::::::As the change was made on April 9, it's a bit late for an April fool and, if one were trying to be politically correct, I'd have though you'd change words like "upperclassman" to "upperclassperson". Anyway, well spotted (I did a minor change to the Wren entry earlier but didn't even look at the output). I'll restore the other words so everthing's back in kilter again :) [[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 17:06, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
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