English Explanatory Dictionary

Hamming distance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Given two strings of equal length, the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols differ; it therefore indicates the minimum number of substitutions required to change one string into the other.

Word forms

Hamming distance Hamming distances

Etymology

Named after American mathematician Richard Hamming (1915–1998).

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