Inside Levenshtein distances
(Dall-e creation ) What could be an inside Levenshtein distance ( iLd )? (this is a follow-up of this page ) Let’s consider 2023 and compute the successive traditional Levenshtein distances between 2 and 023, 20 and 23, 202 and 3 (the so-called inside iLd s). We have (using this online calculator ): Ld 2<>023 = 2 Ld 20<>23 = 1 Ld 202<>3 = 3 Looking at those iLd s and the starting number 2023, one could want all such successive iLd s to reproduce the starting number – except its last digit, of course. Giorgos Kalogeropoulos was quick to compute the following sequence S: S = 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 111, 211, 2020, 2122, 2230, 2231, 2234, 2235, 2236, 2237, 2238, 2239, 3121, 31131, 32131, 32233, 32340, 32341, 32345, 32346, 32347, 32348, 32349, 42232, 422242, 432242, 432450, 432451, 432456, 432457, 432458, 432459, 433242, 433344, 532342, 5433353 , 5433455 , 5433560 , 5433561 , 5433562 , 5433567 , 5433568 , 5433569 , 5443353...