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:::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)
::::<quote>''The "Hamming distance of one" excludes a deletion of one character''</quote> Ah, because that would be a '''[[Levenshtein distance]]''' of one. <quote>''Hamming distance of one might be obscure''</quote>, <quote>''it is very hard to research your problem as you don't have the key words/phrases to aid your search''</quote> I challenge you to put "Hamming distance" and "Changeable words" in to the search engine of your choice and see which gives more relevant information about what that might be. Just because some theoretical reader doesn't know what "Hamming distance" is, doesn't mean we shouldn't call it what it is and what the rest of the world calls it. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 12:35, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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