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Michael McCandless reassigned LUCENE-1548:
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    Assignee: Michael McCandless

> LevenshteinDistance code normalization is incorrect
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>                 Key: LUCENE-1548
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1548
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: contrib/spellchecker
>    Affects Versions: 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.4
>            Reporter: Thomas Morton
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.4.1
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>         Attachments: LUCENE-1548.patch
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>   Original Estimate: 0.5h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0.5h
>
> The normalization of the edit distance should use the maximum of the two 
> string being compared instead of the minimum.  Otherwise negative distances 
> are possible.  The spell checker filters out edits below a certain threshold 
> so this hasn't been a problem in practice.

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