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Hamming weight

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Also known as population count, popcount, popcnt, sideways sum, bit summation

number of nonzero symbols in a string

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Instance of
unary function
Named after
Richard Hamming
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discoverer or inventor
Irving S. Reed
different from
number of individuals
definition domain
set
time of discovery or invention
1954-00-00
characteristic of
string
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