Bruno P. Kinoshita created SANDBOX-485:
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             Summary: [text] Add Hamming distance
                 Key: SANDBOX-485
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SANDBOX-485
             Project: Commons Sandbox
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Commons Text
            Reporter: Bruno P. Kinoshita
            Assignee: Bruno P. Kinoshita
            Priority: Minor


This string metric is taught in biology/bioinformatics for students of the 
first year. It basically compares strings with the same length, looking for how 
many different symbols (characters) it can find.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance



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