30-seconds-of-code/snippets/hamming_distance.md

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hamming_distance	math,intermediate

Calculates the Hamming distance between two values.

• Use the XOR operator (^) to find the bit difference between the two numbers.
• Use bin() to convert the result to a binary string.
• Convert the string to a list and use list.count() to count and return the number of 1s in it.

def hamming_distance(a, b):
  return list(bin(a ^ b)).count('1')

hamming_distance(2, 3) # 1