| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hamming distance | Business | The number of digit positions in which the corresponding digits of two binary words of the same length are different. Note 1: The Hamming distance between 1011101 and 1001001 is two. Note 2: The concept can be extended to other notation systems. For example, the Hamming distance between 2143896 and 2233796 is three, and between "toned" and "roses" it is also three. Synonym signal distance. (references) | |
| Hamming distance | Computing | Hamming distance The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. [Any connection with Hamming code?]. (1999-11-21). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Hamming distance | Math | The number of bits which differ between two binary strings. More formally, the distance between two strings A and B is | Ai - Bi |. (references) | |
| Hamming distance | Physics | 1: A measure of the difference between two messages, each consisting of a finite string of character S, expressed by the number of characters that need to be changed to obtain one from the other. E.g., 0101 and 0110 has a Hamming distance of two whereas "Butter" and "ladder" are four characters apart (see error detecting code, error correcting code). (Krippendorff). (references) | |
| 2: The Hamming distance between two binary words (sequences of 0 and 1) is the number of positions in which the two words disagree. (references) | |||
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