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Perfectness of a Hamming code

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A Hamming code has 22r−r−1 words, and each radius-one Hamming ball contains 1+(2r−1)=2r vectors. Its minimum distance is three, so these balls are disjoint, and their total size is 22r−1. They therefore partition the ambient space, making the code perfect.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2005 / iii / Paper 33 / 3 / Solution
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