English Explanatory Dictionary

Hamming code

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a family of linear error-correcting codes that generalize the Hamming(7,4)-code invented by Richard Hamming in 1950.

Word forms

Hamming code Hamming codes

Etymology

Named after American mathematician Richard Hamming (1915–1998).

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