Cryptography Reference
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110
111
011
010
100
101
001
000
Figure 3.1: The eight corners of the cube. The two corners, 000 and
111, are used to send the message of either 0 or 1. If there is an error
in one bit, then it can be recovered by finding the closest corner.
110
111
011
010
100
101
001
000
Figure 3.2: The Hamming distance shows that the corner “011” is
three steps or units away from “100”. That's the longest distance in
this cube.
