Le 14/12/2014 21:08, Benedikt Ritter a écrit : > Distance and similarity seem to be just opposites of the same thing. A > great distance indicates a small similarity between two character > sequences. Metric feels like it's something more general, but I'm not sure. > > WDYT?
Return the inverse (1/similarity) and you get a distance ;) (not sure it gets all the expected properties of a norm though [1]) Emmanuel Bourg [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_%28mathematics%29#Definition --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
