 Normalized Hamming distance (source code)

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= Normalized Hamming distance
{title2=$\overline d_H(x,y)=d_H(x,y)/n$}

On binary words of length $n$, <normalized Hamming distance> is the fraction of differing coordinates. Unlike unscaled <Hamming distance>, it makes the <Hamming cubes> a <Lévy family> under uniform <probability measures>.

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