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Lexicographic code
Lexicographic codes or lexicodes are a group of error-correcting codes produced independently by Vladimir Levenshtein and by John Horton Conway and Neil Sloane in 1960 and 1986, respectively. The binary lexicographic codes are linear codes, and include the Hamming codes and the binary Golay codes.
Article summary
Lexicographic codes or lexicodes are a group of error-correcting codes produced independently by Vladimir Levenshtein and by John Horton Conway and Neil Sloane in 1960 and 1986, respectively. The binary lexicographic codes are linear codes, and include the Hamming codes and the binary Golay codes.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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