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Thursday June 06, 2002
12:42 PM
nilsimsa algorithm
The nilsimsa alogrithm came up on the Ruby mailing list. It's a hashing algorithm that allows you to determine how similar two strings are.
I never saw it before but it looked interesting. A clever teacher could use this to determine if students are ripping off each other's homework, no?
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Perl! CPAN! Now! (Score:1)
Google also turned up this mailing list message [dynip.com], so the idea isn't *that* brandnew. Still, I see no sign of Matt Sergeant's module on CPAN... But SpamAssasin [cpan.org] is.