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HammingDistance

HammingDistance
gives the Hamming distance between strings or vectors u and v.
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  • HammingDistance gives the number of elements whose values disagree in u and v.
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Basic Examples   (2)
Hamming distance between two strings:
Hamming distance between two vectors:
Hamming distance between two strings:
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Hamming distance between two vectors:
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Scope   (2)
Compute distance between any strings of equal length:
Compute distance between any vectors of equal length:
Options   (1)
Obtain Hamming distance, ignoring case of letters:
Applications   (2)
Cluster string data using Hamming distance:
Cluster numeric data using Hamming distance:
Properties & Relations   (2)
HammingDistance is equivalent to ManhattanDistance for 0, 1 data:
HammingDistance is greater than or equal to EditDistance:
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