At the dawn of the theory of codes

DOI10.1007/BF03025254zbMath0768.94018WikidataQ29396944 ScholiaQ29396944MaRDI QIDQ1209799

Alexander Barg

Publication date: 16 May 1993

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

perfect codesternary Golay codecodes detecting single error and single transpositioncommercial codesdecoding of BCH codesfootball pool play systemsnonlinear equations over a finite field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of information and communication theory (94-03) Cyclic codes (94B15)

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The basics of bases, Magic state distillation with the ternary Golay code, Lester Hill's Error-Detecting Codes

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