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HammingDistance
HammingDistance
[
u
,
v
]
gives the Hamming distance between strings or vectors
u
and
v
.
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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.
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Hamming distance between two strings:
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Hamming distance between two vectors:
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SEE ALSO
EditDistance
JaccardDissimilarity
BitXor
DigitCount
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Partitioning Data into Clusters
MORE ABOUT
Discrete & Integer Data
Distance and Dissimilarity Measures
Logic & Boolean Algebra
String Manipulation
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