The Binary Dark Side

Number Theory Level 2

Define the binary dual of a base-2 number as one of the same number of digits where all the original 0 digits are 1 and all the original 1 digits are 0. (For example, the binary dual of 10110 is 01001.)

Allowing leading zeros, what's the smallest absolute difference between an 8-digit binary number and its binary dual?

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