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To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>,
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Subject: Re: Nonstandard distance metrics (Re: [Ltru] Re: matching for
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At 02:39 27/08/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>And there's some interesting special cases; I think it was Mark who 
>told me about a case where the user wanted "xx-Aaaa" and "xx-Bbbb" 
>to match with a score of +INFINITY, so that when the user asked for 
>"xx-Aaaa", "en" would match better than "xx-Bbbb".

This has a known name: "shaping the world".
It took time before someone eventually acknowledges it.
Thank you.
jfc