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History and applications

Hamming codes Cryptography Telecommunication Alphabet Q-ary symmetric channel

10 related topics

Properties

Metric Words Hamming space Triangle inequality Population count

9 related topics

Error detection and error correction

Error detecting and error correcting codes Code Closed balls Hamming spheres Packing radius

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Algorithm example

Bitwise Wegner (1960)

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Average performance: O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}
Best-case performance: O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}
Class: String similarity
Data structure: string
Worst-case performance: O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}
Worst-case space complexity: O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}

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Overview

Cube
Information theory
Strings String (computer science)
Symbols Symbol
String metrics String metric
Edit distance
Richard Hamming
Coding theory
Block codes Block code
Vectors Vector space
Finite field

Properties

Metric Metric (mathematics)
Words Word (formal language theory)
Hamming space
Triangle inequality
Population count Hamming weight
XOR Exclusive or
Hypercube graph
Hypercube
Manhattan distance

Error detection and error correction

Error detecting and error correcting codes Error detection and correction
Code Code (coding theory)
Closed balls Ball (mathematics)
Hamming spheres Hamming sphere
Packing radius Sphere packing

History and applications

Hamming codes Hamming code
Cryptography
Telecommunication
Alphabet
Q-ary symmetric channel Binary symmetric channel
Lee distance
Phase-shift keying
Synchronization errors Synchronization error?action=edit&redlink=1
Systematics
Levenshtein distance

Algorithm example

Bitwise Bitwise operation
Wegner (1960) Hamming distance

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Nodes43

Edges42

Triples44

Avg. degree1.95

Density0.046512

Components1

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Hamming distance

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related to Properties · 9

Hamming distance → For, Hamming, Hence, Indeed, Manhattan, One, The, The Hamming, XOR

related to history · 8

Hamming distance → Error, For, Hamming, If, It, Lee, Richard Hamming, The Hamming

related to Error detection and error correction · 7

Hamming distance → For, Hamming, If, In, The, The Hamming, This

related to Algorithm example · 6

Hamming distance → Hamming, It, Python, Some, The, Wegner

related to Examples · 3

Hamming distance → For, Hamming, The

Average performance · 1

Hamming distance → O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}

Best-case performance · 1

Hamming distance → O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}

Class · 1

Hamming distance → String similarity

Data structure · 1

Hamming distance → string

Worst-case performance · 1

Hamming distance → O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}

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hamming distance two code error strings words number also binary bits string codewords minimum theory one example 000 111 space

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Hamming distance	Average performance	O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}	1.00	infobox
Hamming distance	Best-case performance	O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}	1.00	infobox
Hamming distance	Class	String similarity	1.00	infobox
Hamming distance	Data structure	string	1.00	infobox
Hamming distance	Worst-case performance	O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}	1.00	infobox
Hamming distance	Worst-case space complexity	O ( n ) {\displaystyle O(n)}	1.00	infobox
Hamming distance	is a	metric on the set of the words of length n	0.90	text
the Levenshtein distance may be more appropriate	instance of	a more sophisticated metric	0.80	text
GCC	instance of	Certain compilers	0.80	text
Clang make it available via an intrinsic function	instance of	Certain compilers	0.80	text
Hamming distance	related to Algorithm example	The	0.60	section
Hamming distance	related to Algorithm example	Python	0.60	section

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