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tonytonyjan / jaro_winkler

Ruby & C implementation of Jaro-Winkler distance algorithm which supports UTF-8 string.
MIT License
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Jaro-Winkler similarity? #42

Closed kwerle closed 2 months ago

kwerle commented 4 years ago

I hate to bring this up, but it looks like this is actually measuring the Jaro-Winkler similarity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%93Winkler_distance

The lower the Jaro–Winkler distance for two strings is, the more similar the strings are. The score is normalized such that 0 means an exact match and 1 means there is no similarity. The Jaro–Winkler similarity is the inversion, (1 − Jaro–Winkler distance).

wynksaiddestroy commented 4 years ago

I think @kwerle is right here.