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On 2021-12-27 19:41, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 04:29:06 -0800 (PST), Laurent
> <lutgenl@icloud.com> declaimed the following:
> 
>> Why I would choose result from strain B over the result from strain
>> A.
>> 
>> strain A: SSSRSS strain B: SSRRRS
>> 
>> Simply counting the number of S, I and R doesn't work. ?Checksum
>> with/without weight for the column number doesn't work either.
> 
> I wouldn't expect a checksum to be of any use, since the idea of
> most checksums (and CRCs) is to be able to verify that a data
> sequence has not been corrupted. Checksums don't "rank" data.


I believe that Laurent does not mean "checksum" in its usual meaning, 
but a numerical "score" computed as a sum of terms multiplied by 
weights. Whether such a score can solve Laurent's problem is not clear.