NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurer (JavaPermutationTools - A Java API for computation on permutations)

All Superinterfaces:

NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurerDouble

All Known Implementing Classes:

AcyclicEdgeDistance, BlockInterchangeDistance, CyclicEdgeDistance, CyclicRTypeDistance, DeviationDistance, ExactMatchDistance, InterchangeDistance, KendallTauDistance, LeeDistance, ReinsertionDistance, ReversalDistance, RTypeDistance, ScrambleDistance, SquaredDeviationDistance
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public interface NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurer
extends NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurerDouble
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Implement this interface to define a distance metric for permutations that supports normalizing the distance to the interval [0,1], but where the base distance is an integer value.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`int`	`max(int length)`	Computes the maximum possible distance between permutations of a specified length.

Methods inherited from interface org.cicirello.permutations.distance.NormalizedPermutationDistanceMeasurerDouble
maxf, normalizedDistance

- Method Detail
  - max
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int max(int length)
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    Computes the maximum possible distance between permutations of a specified length.
    
    Parameters:
    
    length - Permutation length.
    
    Returns:
    
    the maximum distance between a pair of permutations of the specified length.