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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Bob.v.R (talk | contribs) at 11:26, 17 September 2005 (symbol by symbol? really?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This was marked for speedy deletion. I doubt that it qualifies for that.

Charles Matthews 13:48, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Right - it started life as a graffito, but now has content. Keep.

Charles Matthews 13:50, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In the article at present it is stated that a block code is characterised by encoding the information symbols consecutively. I have doubts if that is correct. In my opinion, the main characterisation of a block code is that it is a fixed length channel code (unlike source coding schemes such as Huffman coding, and unlike channel coding methods like convolutional encoding).

In my opinion it is however possible that a block code takes a k-digit information word, and transforms this into an n-digit codeword, without there being the possibility to a symbol by symbol encoding of the information digits. Bob.v.R 11:26, 17 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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