Perfectness of a Hamming code

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Perfectness of a Hamming code by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Hamming code has words, and each radius-one Hamming ball contains vectors. Its minimum distance is three, so these balls are disjoint, and their total size is . They therefore partition the ambient space, making the code perfect.

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