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In Chapter I-13, we looked at ways of coding messages so that if in the transmission an error occurred in one of the digits of a coded word, the receiver would be able to correct the error. Those codes, called Hamming codes, were based on defining coded words as vectors of solutions in ℤ2 to sets of linear equations.
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Childs, L. (1979). Error-Correcting Codes, II. In: A Concrete Introduction to Higher Algebra. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0065-6_37
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