The point is that one cannot get zero error; just arbitrarily small. From an information theory point of view, on still has the various bounds (Griesmer for example) on how much redundancy is needed to correct errors.
170 posted on 05/07/2005 7:06:34 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic
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