Hamming distance

English

Etymology

Named after American mathematician Richard Hamming (1915–1998).

Noun

Hamming distance (plural Hamming distances)

  1. (information theory) Given two strings of equal length, the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols differ; it therefore indicates the minimum number of substitutions required to change one string into the other.
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