gmp_hamdist

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
Hamming distance
int gmp_hamdist ( GMP $a, GMP $b )

Returns the hamming distance between a and b. Both operands should be non-negative.

Parameters:
a

Either a GMP number resource in PHP 5.5 and earlier, a GMP object in PHP 5.6 and later, or a numeric string provided that it is possible to convert the latter to a number.

It should be positive.

b

Either a GMP number resource in PHP 5.5 and earlier, a GMP object in PHP 5.6 and later, or a numeric string provided that it is possible to convert the latter to a number.

It should be positive.

Returns:

A GMP number resource in PHP 5.5 and earlier, or a GMP object in PHP 5.6 and later.

Examples:
gmp_hamdist() example
<?php
$ham1 = gmp_init("1001010011", 2);
$ham2 = gmp_init("1011111100", 2);
echo gmp_hamdist($ham1, $ham2) . "\n";

/* hamdist is equivalent to: */
echo gmp_popcount(gmp_xor($ham1, $ham2)) . "\n";
?>

The above example will output:

6
6
See also:

gmp_popcount() -

gmp_xor() -

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2016-02-24 16:02:17
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