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Can you name the countries that are the closest in spelling?
created by
dglgmut
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Enter the names of two countries on one line (e.g. "Poland Pakistan"). Distance is the Levenshtein distance between the names of the two countries.
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Levenshtein distance
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Countries with close spellings Quiz
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Created Sep 13, 2012 in
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Brizza
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Sep 13th, 2012 at 09:01 GMT
5 points
Surprised at the low rating for this, it's quite a cerebral twist on the usual Geography topics. 5* from me to even things up.
mykl
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Sep 13th, 2012 at 19:06 GMT
2 points
I knew Burundi was on there somewhere, but couldn't work out what it was paired with!
javonzir
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Sep 13th, 2012 at 22:36 GMT
2 points
out of interest should serbia-syria be included as it has a distance of 2?
dglgmut
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Sep 13th, 2012 at 23:56 GMT
1 point
You're right. I've added it.
dancastro
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Sep 14th, 2012 at 00:57 GMT
2 points
Thanks for having taught me what's the Levenshtein distance. Not knowing it, I tried such things as Paraguay - Uruguay, Switzerland - Swaziland, Republic of the Congo - DRC, Dominica - Dominican Republic, different combinations of the Guineas, etc.
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