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paulbort
<p>If you want to know if two pieces of code are functionally the same, you could write a test framework and if they both pass all the same tests, they are similar to the extent of your tests.</p>
<p>But that is impractical in the general case.</p>
<p>If you want to see how similar two source files are, zip them. This is done in <a href="http://monod.uwaterloo.ca/papers/04sid.pdf">plagiarism detection</a>.</p><!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only -->
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