But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction

A discovery-oriented introduction to error correction codes.
Part 2: https://youtu.be/b3NxrZOu_CE
Ben Eater:'s take: https://youtu.be/h0jloehRKas
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Heavily related is the chessboard puzzle I did with Matt Parker:
https://youtu.be/as7Gkm7Y7h4

You can read Hamming's own perspective on his discovery of these codes in chapter 12 of "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering".
https://amzn.to/3lwcnmh


The viewer Harry Li made an interactive on this topic:
https://harryli0088.github.io/hamming-code/

Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations
Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
Hungarian: Fabó Bence
Spanish: agustin-j

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