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  2. Line length - Wikipedia

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    In typography, line length is the width of a block of typeset text, usually measured in units of length like inches or points or in characters per line (in which case it is a measure). A block of text or paragraph has a maximum line length that fits a determined design. If the lines are too short then the text becomes disjointed; if they are ...

  3. String metric - Wikipedia

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    The most widely known string metric is a rudimentary one called the Levenshtein distance (also known as edit distance). [2] It operates between two input strings, returning a number equivalent to the number of substitutions and deletions needed in order to transform one input string into another.

  4. Distance from a point to a line - Wikipedia

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    The distance (or perpendicular distance) from a point to a line is the shortest distance from a fixed point to any point on a fixed infinite line in Euclidean geometry. It is the length of the line segment which joins the point to the line and is perpendicular to the line. The formula for calculating it can be derived and expressed in several ways.

  5. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    One example: when justification is used in narrow columns, extremely large spaces may appear between words on lines with only two or three words. Another example: when the spaces between words line up approximately above one another in several loose lines, a distracting river of white space may appear. [4]

  6. Levenshtein distance - Wikipedia

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    The Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other. It is named after Soviet mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein, who defined the metric in 1965. [1] Levenshtein distance may also be referred to as edit distance, although ...

  7. Distance between two parallel lines - Wikipedia

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    the distance between the two lines is the distance between the two intersection points of these lines with the perpendicular line = /. This distance can be found by first solving the linear systems {= + = /, and {= + = /, to get the coordinates of the intersection points. The solutions to the linear systems are the points

  8. Statistical distance - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, probability theory, and information theory, a statistical distance quantifies the distance between two statistical objects, which can be two random variables, or two probability distributions or samples, or the distance can be between an individual sample point and a population or a wider sample of points.

  9. Full width at half maximum - Wikipedia

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    Full width at half maximum. In a distribution, full width at half maximum (FWHM) is the difference between the two values of the independent variable at which the dependent variable is equal to half of its maximum value. In other words, it is the width of a spectrum curve measured between those points on the y-axis which are half the maximum ...