public static void Main()
Console.WriteLine(CalculateSimilarity("Java", "Java"));
static int ComputeLevenshteinDistance(string source, string target)
if ((source == null) || (target == null)) return 0;
if ((source.Length == 0) || (target.Length == 0)) return 0;
if (source == target) return source.Length;
int sourceWordCount = source.Length;
int targetWordCount = target.Length;
if (sourceWordCount == 0)
if (targetWordCount == 0)
int[,] distance = new int[sourceWordCount + 1, targetWordCount + 1];
for (int i = 0; i <= sourceWordCount; distance[i, 0] = i++);
for (int j = 0; j <= targetWordCount; distance[0, j] = j++);
for (int i = 1; i <= sourceWordCount; i++)
for (int j = 1; j <= targetWordCount; j++)
int cost = (target[j - 1] == source[i - 1]) ? 0 : 1;
distance[i, j] = Math.Min(Math.Min(distance[i - 1, j] + 1, distance[i, j - 1] + 1), distance[i - 1, j - 1] + cost);
return distance[sourceWordCount, targetWordCount];
static double CalculateSimilarity(string source, string target)
if ((source == null) || (target == null)) return 0.0;
if ((source.Length == 0) || (target.Length == 0)) return 0.0;
if (source == target) return 1.0;
int stepsToSame = ComputeLevenshteinDistance(source, target);
return (1.0 - ((double)stepsToSame / (double)Math.Max(source.Length, target.Length)));