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Digital Revolution (III) - Error Correction Codes

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7. References

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Those who can access JSTOR can find some of the papers mentioned above there.
 


  1. Introduction
  2. Basic ideas
  3. The channel concept
  4. Codes and geometry
  5. Theory and practice of codes
  6. Error correction technologies
  7. References