But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction

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What it covers

3Blue1Brown's discovery-oriented introduction to error correction codes, building up Hamming codes from the puzzle of locating a flipped bit. It explains the parity-check idea and why it is. It is for someone meeting the subject for the first time.

Video details

Channel

3Blue1Brown

Length

20 min 5 sec

Year

2020

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