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Solution: Hamming Distance

Understand how to determine the Hamming distance between two integers by applying XOR to identify differing bits. Explore Brian Kernighan's bit manipulation technique to count set bits efficiently, enabling optimized solutions in Python.

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 ...