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Solution: Hamming Distance

Explore how to calculate the Hamming distance between two integers by applying bitwise XOR to identify differing bits, then efficiently count those bits using Brian Kernighan's algorithm. Understand the solution's constant space usage and time complexity based on set bits.

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 ...