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  2. Hamming distance - Wikipedia

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    In information theory, the Hamming distance between two strings or vectors of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different. In other words, it measures the minimum number of substitutions required to change one string into the other, or equivalently, the minimum number of errors that could have transformed one string into the other.

  3. Linear interpolation - Wikipedia

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    Given the two red points, the blue line is the linear interpolant between the points, and the value y at x may be found by linear interpolation.. In mathematics, linear interpolation is a method of curve fitting using linear polynomials to construct new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points.

  4. Methods of computing square roots - Wikipedia

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    A better way is to the divide the range into intervals half way between the squares. So any number between 25 and half way to 36, which is 30.5, estimate 5; any number greater than 30.5 up to 36, estimate 6. The procedure only requires a little arithmetic to find a boundary number in the middle of two products from the multiplication table ...

  5. Integer relation algorithm - Wikipedia

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    For the case n = 2, an extension of the Euclidean algorithm can find any integer relation that exists between any two real numbers x 1 and x 2. The algorithm generates successive terms of the continued fraction expansion of x 1 /x 2; if there is an integer relation between the numbers, then their ratio is rational and the algorithm eventually ...

  6. List of algorithms - Wikipedia

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    Damerau–Levenshtein distance: computes a distance measure between two strings, improves on Levenshtein distance; Dice's coefficient (also known as the Dice coefficient): a similarity measure related to the Jaccard index; Hamming distance: sum number of positions which are different; Jaro–Winkler distance: is a measure of similarity between ...

  7. Luhn algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Luhn algorithm. The Luhn algorithm or Luhn formula, also known as the " modulus 10" or "mod 10" algorithm, named after its creator, IBM scientist Hans Peter Luhn, is a simple check digit formula used to validate a variety of identification numbers. It is described in U.S. Patent No. 2,950,048, granted on August 23, 1960.

  8. Binary search algorithm - Wikipedia

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    O (1) Optimal. Yes. In computer science, binary search, also known as half-interval search, [1] logarithmic search, [2] or binary chop, [3] is a search algorithm that finds the position of a target value within a sorted array. [4] [5] Binary search compares the target value to the middle element of the array. If they are not equal, the half in ...

  9. Absolute difference - Wikipedia

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    The absolute difference of two real numbers and is given by , the absolute value of their difference. It describes the distance on the real line between the points corresponding to and . It is a special case of the L p distance for all and is the standard metric used for both the set of rational numbers and their completion, the set of real ...