Re: [math-fun] Error correction for integers (bignums)

Starting from a single bit for 0 or 1 - surely no difference here…….

On 26 Jan 2019, at 01:15, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:

Clearly, one would like to put more redundancy into X than Y, and more into Y than Z.

Alternatively, encode X into more bits than Y, which enables "standard" ECC to better deal with errors in X than in Y.