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From the book at the start of Chapter 2: "Chapter 1 introduced the fundamental quests of this book — namely error-correcting codes over some given alphabet and
by zkmon 1y ago
From the book at the start of Chapter 2:
"Chapter 1 introduced the fundamental quests of this book — namely error-correcting codes over some given alphabet and block length that achieve the best possible tradeoff between dimension and distance, and the asymptotics of these parameters. We refer to all the theory pertinent to this quest as coding theory"
So when they say "Coding" it is about error correcting codes, not about some programming. Sigh.
I suggest changing the title of the book to something like "Theory of error correcting codes"
- jonstewart 1y agoWhen I learn something new, I’m grateful to the teacher.
- phanimahesh 1y agoCoding here refers to information representation. The term is widely used, and established.
- goku12 1y agoCoding refers to more that just error correction codes. It also includes error detection, compression, etc. And as someone pointed out, coding is a formal name that was probably established well before coding software became a thing. Another similar term with a well established name is 'programming'. It's traditional meaning is optimization.