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HammingDistance

HammingDistance[u, v]
gives the Hamming distance between strings or vectors u and v.

HammingDistance[u, v] gives the number of elements whose values disagree in u and v.

For strings, setting the option IgnoreCase->True makes HammingDistance treat lower- and upper-case letters as equivalent.

Hamming distance between two strings:

Hamming distance between two vectors:

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