LeetCode 461. Hamming Distance

Description

https://leetcode.com/problems/hamming-distance/

The Hamming distance between two integers is the number of positions at which the corresponding bits are different.

Given two integers x and y, calculate the Hamming distance.

Note:
0 ≤ x, y < 2³¹.

Example:

Input: x = 1, y = 4

Output: 2

Explanation:
1   (0 0 0 1)
4   (0 1 0 0)
       ↑   ↑

The above arrows point to positions where the corresponding bits are different.

Explanation

count how many ‘1’s in x x

Python Solution

class Solution:
    def hammingDistance(self, x: int, y: int) -> int:
        return bin(x^y).count('1')

• Time complexity: O(1).
• Space complexity: O(1).