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Jaro-Winkler similarity

Jaro-Winkler similarity uses a prefix scale which gives more favorable ratings to strings that match from the beginning for a set prefix of given length comapred to Jaro similarity

Algorithms

Time complexitySpace complexity
Naive solution1O(nm)O(nm)O(n)O(n)

Footnotes

  1. string2string: A Modern Python Library for String-to-String Algorithms