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Hamming distance

The number of positions where two equal-length bit-strings disagree.

For x,y \in \{0,1\}^n, d_H(x,y) counts the coordinates where x and y differ; a code's minimum distance d_{\min} is the smallest d_H between any two distinct codewords.

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