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::The task is poorly named in the first place, which is why there is confusion over the sketchy specs. If the task was: <code>Hamming distance</code> "Find word pairs, 12 letters or more, in unixdict.txt, that have a Hamming edit distance of 1", all of these debates would be moot. Hamming distance is what most of the entries are effectively (or explicitly) doing anyway. A web search for 'Hamming distance' is less likely to find 'Changeable words'. I have long campaigned for naming tasks for exactly what they do to make it easier to find them and/or implement them. Here is yet another prime example of why a crappy name coupled with vague, borderline incoherent specs causes ongoing issues. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 14:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
:::The "Hamming distance of one" excludes a deletion of one character and may or may not be what is required. Hamming distance of one might be obscure to many programmers - in a list of tasks it may give ''less'' information to a reader. A reader wanting to look at character manipulation tasks might find this title but skip "Hamming distance". I have this problem when searching in mathematics; you are interested in a topic, but until you are well versed in that particular branch of maths, for example graph theory, it is very hard to research your problem as you don't have the key words/phrases to aid your search . --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 07:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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