Part $($a$)$: Edit distance

One specialization in computer science and mathematics is information theory, invented in the $1940$ s when the possibilities for the digital representation of data and signals were first deeply investigated. An example of a concept in information theory is edit distance, which describes how much one data string differs from another data string. If we examine binary numbers instead of data strings, we can see an edit distance more clearly. For example, consider the $8-$bit binary quivalents of $198$ and

$81$:

$11000110$

$01010001$

The numbers are clearly different, and one measure of this is found by determining

the number of bit positions in which the two binary numbers differ. Shown below are

these two numbers again but with the different bits noted in bold:

$11000110$

$01010001$

That is$,$ if we denote bit $7$ as the left$-$most bit of each number, then bits $7,4,2,1$ and $0$

$($i$.$e$.,$ five bits$)$ are different between each number. The edit distance of these two

binary numbers is therefore five $(5).$

Your task for part $($a$)$ is to complete the code in edit$-$distance.asm within the

project csc$230-$a$1-$part$-$a provided to you. Please read this file for more details on

what is required.

The values for which you will find the edit distance will be registers r$16$ and

r$17$

The computed edit distance must be stored in r$25.$

Some test cases are provided to you in the provided assembly file. I NEED THE ASSEMBLY CODE I REPEAT I NEED THE ASSEMBLY CODE