On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:47:45 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > The idea is that otherwise e.g. "cat" and "hippopothamus" have a > l-distance of only 3, which one would consider good at the first look.
??? I make it that the L-distance between cat and hippopothamus is twelve, not three. With len(cat)=3 and len(hippopothamus) = 13, you need ten insertions just to get the lengths equal, so the L-distance must be at least ten. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
