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similar words 1-0
similar words 1-0
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Publisher : Keith Fenske

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People make mistakes when they type numbers, words, almost anything.
Edit By BS Editor: People make mistakes when they type numbers, words, almost anything. The most common mistakes are:

changing one letter or digit: bat / cat;
adding one letter: bat / boat;
deleting one letter: frog / fog; and
reversing two consecutive letters: two / tow.
Most mistakes with letters dont result in proper words. Most mistakes with numbers do. Consider telephone numbers. If you change one digit or Reverse two Digits, you usually get a valid telephone number, which is a wrong number for you, but still someone Answers and you have to excuse yourself. This happens because telephone numbers use almost all possible combinations of digits. It doesnt happen as often with words because there are many more combinations of letters than there are words, and words that we dont recognize become nonsense.
To avoid this problem with telephone numbers, dont assign every number. How many to reserve depends upon how careful you want to be. Hint: prime numbers are very helpful here, especially numbers that are relatively prime to ten. Assign only those telephone numbers that have a certain remainder when divided by a chosen prime number. The prime number 3 is too small, five wont work at all, seven is better, Eleven beats seven, etc. The bigger the prime number, the more error checking you have. Whats the smallest prime number that will catch each of the four categories of mistakes listed above (individually)? Whats the smallest prime number that will catch all four categories (collectively)?

You cant use prime numbers on words. You can compare words to each other and choose only those words that cant be Confused by the four categories listed above. Words like this are very suitable for identifiers such as account names, user login IDs, or abbreviations. Write a Java Swing application (graphical interface) that will accept words from the user, compare them against each other, and report which words are in conflict with which other words. you can free download Similar Words 1.0 now.

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