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package com.rapidminer.tools.math.similarity;
/**
* This empty interface only indicates if a measure is more primary a similarity measure than a
* distance measure. Nevertheless both measure types have to implement both methods properly, so
* this interface is only for programmers orientation NOT for testing with instanceof!
*
* @author Sebastian Land
*/
public abstract class SimilarityMeasure extends DistanceMeasure {
private static final long serialVersionUID = -2138479771882810015L;
/**
* This method returns a boolean whether this measure is a distance measure
*
* @return true if is distance
*/
@Override
public final boolean isDistance() {
return false;
}
}