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Simple but inefficient error-correcting code

In coding theory, the repetition code is one of the most basic linear error-correcting codes. In order to transmit a message over a noisy channel that may corrupt the transmission in a few places, the idea of the repetition code is to just repeat the message several times. The hope is that the channel corrupts only a minority of these repetitions. This way, the receiver will notice that a transmission error occurred since the received data stream is not the repetition of a single message, and moreover, the receiver can recover the original message by looking at the received message in the data stream that occurs most often. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: Repetition codeA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Coherent-lite PON with repetition code and single polarization receiverInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Le droit civil canadien basé sur les "Répétitions écrites sur le code civil" de Frédéric Mourlon, avec revue de la jurisprudence de nos tribunauxThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Priming of code-switches in sentences: The role of lexical repetition, cognates, and language proficiencyCited 64 times
  5. Go sideways: Binary symmetric channelA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Error correction codeA closely related topic

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