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In mathematics, a (binary) linear code is a linear subspace C of the vector space

Fn

for some n > 0, where F is the field with two elements {0,1}. The name arises from the use of these codes as error-correcting codes. Occasionally F is taken to be some other finite field. Category;Coding theory