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 ===== distance(text, text) =====
-The edit distance between two text strings calculated as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_distance|Damerau-Levenshtein distance]]. It shows the degree of variance between the two strings. The bigger is the edit distance, the more different the strings are.
+The edit distance between two text strings calculated as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_distance|Damerau-Levenshtein distance]]. It shows the number of text edits such as character insertion or deletion is needed to produce one text string from another. It's used to measure a degree of variance between two strings. The bigger is the edit distance, the more different the strings are.
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