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| author | dcw <d.white@imperial.ac.uk> | 2019-06-09 10:39:17 +0100 |
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| committer | dcw <d.white@imperial.ac.uk> | 2019-06-09 10:39:17 +0100 |
| commit | 908a9f65859d27eae0083521132dc5465c487b6c (patch) | |
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| parent | e4269e30267a8671e91f595031ec9e3403e05046 (diff) | |
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reformated README long-line paragraphs, and added a final paragraph saying I got stuck with git merge so didn't submit
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diff --git a/challenge-010/duncan-c-white/README b/challenge-010/duncan-c-white/README index 2654c03c6b..2384fb220f 100644 --- a/challenge-010/duncan-c-white/README +++ b/challenge-010/duncan-c-white/README @@ -9,16 +9,19 @@ Challenge 2: "Write a to find Jaro-Winkler distance between two strings." My notes: -WTF is Jaro-Winkler, read wikipedia page, well Jaro-Winkler is a simple prefix -adjustment to the Jaro distance, but the wikipedia page explaining Jaro distances -is not very clear - it describes it in terms of matched characters and transposed -characters, but it's description of matching within a range, and of how to count -transposed characters is almost completely unclear. I couldn't write code based -on such a poor description! +WTF is Jaro-Winkler, read wikipedia page, well Jaro-Winkler is a +simple prefix adjustment to the Jaro distance, but the wikipedia page +explaining Jaro distances is not very clear - it describes it in terms +of matched characters and transposed characters, but it's description +of matching within a range, and of how to count transposed characters +is almost completely unclear. I couldn't write code based on such a +poor description! -But googling further, Rosetta Stone had various implementations in various -languages (including C and Perl), which clarifies the terribly unclear wikipedia -entry. Ok, I basically understand it now. Transposed characters are matching -characters that are diferent, eg TH vs HT +But googling further, Rosetta Stone had various implementations in +various languages (including C and Perl), which clarifies the terribly +unclear wikipedia entry. Ok, I basically understand it now. Transposed +characters are matching characters that are diferent, eg TH vs HT -So I'll have a go anyway. +So I'll have a go anyway, although I ran out of time to do it in the +weekly challenge (and I screwed up the git side of things, so couldn't +submit it late either). |