HammingDistance

HammingDistance(a, b)

returns the Hamming distance of a and b, i.e. the number of different elements.

See:

• Wikipedia - Hamming distance
• Youtube - Hamming codes and error correction
• Youtube - Hamming codes part 2, the elegance of it all

Examples

>> HammingDistance("time", "dime")
1

The IgnoreCase option makes EditDistance ignore the case of letters:

>> HammingDistance("TIME", "dime", IgnoreCase -> True)
1

Implementation status

• ✅ - full supported

Github

• Implementation of HammingDistance