Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hamming distance

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English

Syllables: ham-ming dis-tance
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Hamming distances (plural)

Questions

What does hamming distance mean?: 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.
Where does hamming distance come from?: Named after American mathematician Richard Hamming (1915–1998).

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