Tag Archives: error detection

Finding the minimal distance of a Hamming code

Still guessing about it but, I couldn’t find an elegant way to find the minimal hamming distance of a code … till I finally got it !, here it is:
Basically the question falls to find the minimum amount of difference between two different codewords, say you got your codeword which is bit long, systematical [...]

Hamming Code, and easy endianess mistake

Working on my next practical class (ELE109), I had the impression of something wrong in that text:
Let be the generator polynom of the code, the non systematical matrix can be defined by calculating , , and :

Well, that last one sound wrong … let’s check, it out, we can obtain the systematic [...]