Ross Patterson <A024012@RUTVM1>
Wed, 4 May 88 09:53:57 EDT
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> It is a long time since I read that part of my copy of Knuth, and
> it currently resides in Canada, while I reside in Germany, but I
> seem to recall that he did give a reference for his algorithm.
I have copy of the Soundex algorithm, translated to Rexx from a
PL/I program in VMSHARE's NOTE SOUNDEX. The original PL/I code was
done by Ezra Goldman of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He
attributes the "secret algorizm" to an IBM publication (GC20-1707-0)
"Identification Techniques". His code is dated 1978, so if you're a
pack rat, you might have a copy in your manual library.
> I assume sounmds was a typing error! Would SOUNDEX consider it
> equivalent to sounds? :-)
Yes:
Soundex('sounds') = 'S532'
Soundex('sounmds') = 'S532'
That's the whole idea, right?
Ross Patterson
Rutgers University
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