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# Hamming Distance
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the Hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the
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number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are
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different. In other words, it measures the minimum number of
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substitutions required to change one string into the other, or
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the minimum number of errors that could have transformed one
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string into the other. In a more general context, the Hamming
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distance is one of several string metrics for measuring the
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edit distance between two sequences.
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## Examples
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The Hamming distance between:
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- "ka**rol**in" and "ka**thr**in" is **3**.
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- "k**a**r**ol**in" and "k**e**r**st**in" is **3**.
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- 10**1**1**1**01 and 10**0**1**0**01 is **2**.
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- 2**17**3**8**96 and 2**23**3**7**96 is **3**.
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## References
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[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance)
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