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However, this common evaluation\/diagnosis method may lead to the loss of a great deal of useful incomplete, uncertain, and inconsistent information in the clinical survey and initial evaluation process of the BPH symptoms for a patient, resulting in an unreasonable evaluation and diagnosis distortion of the BPH symptoms. To overcome this drawback, this paper aims to propose new exponential similarity measures (ESMs) between simplified neutrosophic sets (SNSs), including single-valued neutrosophic ESMs and interval neutrosophic ESMs, and their initial evaluation\/diagnosis method of the BPH symptoms with simplified neutrosophic information. 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