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In this chapter the basic notions of the theory of error-correcting codes are introduced: the Hamming distance, parameters of codes, linear codes, encoding and decoding procedures, spectrum and duality, the MacWilliams identity and Krawtchouk polynomials.
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Stepanov, S.A. (1999). Codes and Their Parameters. In: Codes on Algebraic Curves. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4785-3_1
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