When too many errors occur the process backs up to the previous guess and takes the other path. In our example, after tracing back, the decoder would take the path dictated by a 00 input.

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Correction is not possible with one parity bit since any bit error in any position creates exactly the same information as bad parity. If more bits are integrated ...

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Error detecting and correcting codes are based on significant distance between two bit strings in terms of the number of bits that have to alter to get from the first ...