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Algorithm

Error-correcting code

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add redundancy so the receiver can undo the channel's damage

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isrepresent × L0. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointError-correcting codenothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

06Channelsact 1 · The Substrate

Where it comes from

bookElements of Information Theory (2nd ed.)Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas · 2006

Every connection

All 1 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

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This page is a projection of one node in src/data/concepts.ts. It has no prose file of its own — 230 declared edges produce all 236 of these pages. Edit an edge and both endpoints change.