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What is the minimal Hamming distance between any two correct codewords?(a) 1(b) 2(c) 3(d) 4I have been asked this question at a job interview.This question is from Checksum, Complexity Classes & NP Complete Problems in division Checksum, Complexity Classes & NP Complete Problems of Data Structures & Algorithms II

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The CORRECT option is (C) 3

To explain: Since we use a generalized version of HAMMING(7, 4) code, the minimal hamming distance is 3. It cannot correct BURST errors.



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