Talk:Changeable words: Difference between revisions
Regarding "committeeperson" <-> "committeepeople"
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::::::::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)
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