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Fuzzy String Matching in Python
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Measuring Small changes over large documents #311

Open nfeliccia opened 3 years ago

nfeliccia commented 3 years ago

Greetings fuzzers:

I am looking to measure edits over large documents. I notice that Fuzzy returns only a 2 digit integer showing the ratio. Is there a historical reason for this? Thanks in advance. NIC.

maxbachmann commented 3 years ago

I do not know any specific reason for this design decision. I personally decided to go with floating point in my own implementation of the algorithms (RapidFuzz), since I could not see any good reason to reduce the precision.