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Problem Write a function that takes the binary representation of a positive integer and returns the number of set bits it has (also known as the Hamming weight). Note: Note that in some languages, such as Java, there is no unsigned integer type. In this case, the input will be given as a signed integer type. It should not affect your implementation, as the integer’s internal binary representation is the same, whether it is signed or unsigned. In Java, the compiler represents the signed integers using 2’s complement notation. Therefore, in Example 3, the input represents the signed integer. -3. Examples Example 1: ...

Problem You are given two numbers A and B. Write a function to determine the number of bits need to be flipped to convert integer A to integer B. OR A bit flip of a number x is choosing a bit in the binary representation of x and flipping it from either 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. For example, for x = 7, the binary representation is 111 and we may choose any bit (including any leading zeros not shown) and flip it. We can flip the first bit from the right to get 110, flip the second bit from the right to get 101, flip the fifth bit from the right (a leading zero) to get 10111, etc. Given two integers start and goal, return the minimum number of bit flips to convert start to goal. ...