Both blazar's and japhy's return true when passed 'fred', 'freda' which obviously isn't right.

When you add the code to detect that error, you get:

Rate rg0now ikegami Not_a_Number blazar japhy + BrowserUk rg0now 412/s -- -69% -85% -96% -96% + -96% ikegami 1311/s 218% -- -54% -86% -88% + -89% Not_a_Number 2842/s 589% 117% -- -70% -74% + -75% blazar 9628/s 2236% 634% 239% -- -13% + -17% japhy 11086/s 2590% 745% 290% 15% -- + -4% BrowserUk 11580/s 2709% 783% 307% 20% 4% + --

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In reply to Re^3: Tell whether two strings differ at only one position by BrowserUk
in thread Tell whether two strings differ at only one position by rg0now

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