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Who invented Hamming codes?(a) Richard Hamming(b) Ross Hamming(c) Shannon(d) HuffmanThis question was addressed to me in an online quiz.My doubt stems from Checksum, Complexity Classes & NP Complete Problems in division Checksum, Complexity Classes & NP Complete Problems of Data Structures & Algorithms II

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Right choice is (a) RICHARD Hamming

The best explanation: Richard W. Hamming invented hamming CODES in BELL TELEPHONE Laboratory to minimize the errors in punched CARD readers. Huffman invented huffman codes. Shannon invented Shannon-Fanno codes.



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