The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[rikforto]

The third column is the part of the badness score that is due to the errors in the gap lengths.  Each term is proportional to the square of the error; the first and last gaps have half the weight of the other gaps.  

Can you provide the precise expression you used to arrive at these figures? I can get something like your numbers from this description, but I cannot quite reproduce the results. 

The other thing I'm going to want to know is what the badness cutoff is---when is that badness too high to count as a match?