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namespace SpellChecker.Net.Search.Spell
{
    using System;
    
    /// <summary>
    /// Interface for string distances.
    /// </summary>
    public interface StringDistance
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a float between 0 and 1 based on how similar the specified strings are to one another.  
        /// Returning a value of 1 means the specified strings are identical and 0 means the
        /// string are maximally different.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="s1">The first string.</param>
        /// <param name="s2">The second string.</param>
        /// <returns>a float between 0 and 1 based on how similar the specified strings are to one another.</returns>
        float GetDistance(String s1, String s2);

    }
}