BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL

HammingDistance

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

Details and Options Details and Options

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 lowercase and uppercase letters as equivalent.

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Basic Examples (2)Basic Examples (2)

Hamming distance between two strings:

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Hamming distance between two vectors:

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Scope (2)Scope (2)

Options (1)Options (1)

Applications (2)Applications (2)

Properties & Relations (2)Properties & Relations (2)

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See Also See Also

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Tutorials Tutorials

Partitioning Data into Clusters

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