@Jeetmoni saikia do you mean 0x?
if yes then it is prefix. it is used to indicate the number is being written in hexadecimal format.
The given codeword is represented in hexadecimal format as $0x$ as a prefix. Perform the EXOR operations between 2 codewords, the number of $1’s$ in the resultant code word is called hamming distance.
$(0XAA)_H=1010 1010$
$\oplus$
$(0X55)_H= 0101 0101$
$(11111111)$
So the hamming distance of the given codeword is $8$
Ref: UGC NET CSE | June 2014
Hamming Distance = 5 ans
:8
Apply XOR
0xAA = 1010 1010 0x55 = 0101 0101 ---------------- 0xFF = 1111 1111
0xAA = 1010 1010 0x55 = 0101 0101 --
-------------- 0xFF = 1111 1111
In the resultant code, the number of 1′s shows Hamming Distance
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