Understanding the 'text_match' calculation in Typesense.
TLDR John asked about the interpretation of text_match
scores while Kishore Nallan clarified that the score is a composed int64 integer and shared the computation link.
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Jun 20, 2022 (18 months ago)
John
12:38 PMtext_match
is computed somewhere, or some way to make it more interpretable? I get scores like 565161851289602
which is quite opaque 😅Kishore Nallan
12:42 PM1
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