New Post (144) : An “OBAMA” and an “OSAMA”.
Soundex ---is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English.
More…(background)…
Soundex was developed by Robert C. Russell and Margaret K. Odell and patented in 1918 and 1922. A variation called American Soundex was used in the 1930s for a retrospective analysis of the US censuses from 1890 through 1920. The Soundex code came to prominence in the 1960s when it was the subject of several articles in the Communications and Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, and especially when described in Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) maintains the current rule set for the official implementation of Soundex used by the U.S. Government. These encoding rules are available from NARA, upon request, in the form of General Information Leaflet 55, "Using the Census Soundex".
Examples…
Using this algorithm, both "Robert" and "Rupert" return the same string "R163" while "Rubin" yields "R150". "Ashcraft" and "Ashcroft" both yield "A261".
Hypothetical question: How about---an “OBAMA” and an “OSAMA” ?
They only differ in a "B" & and an "S".
B -as in Bomber. S -as in suicide bomber.
Charlie Brown
