# Bitwise Hamming distance: hamdist

### 5.2.2 Bitwise Hamming distance: hamdist

The Hamming distance between two integers is the number of differences between the bits of the two integers. The hamdist operator finds the Hamming distance between two integers.

- hamdist takes two arguments:
  m and n, both integers.
- hamdist(m,n) returns the Hamming distance between m and n.

#### Example.

Input:

hamdist(0x12,0x38)

or:

hamdist(18,56)

Output:

3

because:
18 is written 0x12 in base 16 and 0b010010 in base 2,
56 is written 0x38 in base 16 and 0b111000 in base 2,
hamdist(18,56) is equal to 1+0+1+0+1+0 and so is equal to 3.