Repetition Code - Code Parameters

Code Parameters

The minimum Hamming distance is for an repetition code, and there are two valid code words - all ones and all zeros, so the minimum weight is r. This gives the repetition code an error correcting capacity of (i.e. it will correct up to errors in any code word).

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