Hamming distance

hamming distance algo

/*  
* Hamming distance refers to the number of points at which two variables differ, 
* calculated by simply adding up the number of spots where two variables differ.
* The variable can be binary or strings.
* Used for finding genetic distance or to find the no of distorted bits to estimate error 
*/
const hammingDistance = (x, y) => {
  let inc = 0
  let count = 0
  while (x[inc]) {
    if (x[inc] !== y[inc]) {
      count++
    }
    inc++
  }
  return count
}

const res = hammingDistance('karhlin', 'kathlin')

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