Coding theory posts

Here are some posts I’ve written that fall under the general heading of coding theory. Although coding theory can overlap with secret codes, it’s more concerned with things like Morse code, Reed-Solomon codes, and Unicode.

Radio related

• Frequency Shift Keying
• Morse code numbers and abbreviations
• How efficient is Morse code?

Algebraic coding theory

• Prefix codes
• Introduction to Hamming codes
• Golay codes
• Perfect codes
• Lee distance
• Erasure coding
• MDS codes

Text encoding

• Base 32 and base 64 encoding
• Base 85 encoding
• How UTF-8 works

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