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Solution: Hamming Distance

Explore how to calculate the Hamming distance between two integers by identifying differing bits with XOR and counting them efficiently using Brian Kernighan's algorithm. Understand the step-by-step process and optimize your solution with bitwise operations for minimal time and space complexity.

Statement

The Hamming distance between two integers is defined as the number of bit positions where the corresponding bits of the two numbers differ.

Given two integers x and y, your task is to find and return the Hamming distance between them.

Constraints:

  • 00 \leq x, y 2311\leq 2^{31} - 1 ...