But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction

Grant Sanderson provides a visual, discovery-oriented introduction to error-correcting codes, building up to the design of Hamming codes.

A discovery-oriented introduction to error correction codes. Part 2: youtu.be/b3NxrZOu_CE Ben Eater:'s take: youtu.be/h0jloehRKas Help fund future projects: patreon.com/3blue1brown An equally valuable form of support is to simply share some of the videos. Special thanks to these supporters: 3b1b.co/hamming-thanks Heavily related is the chessboard puzzle I did with Matt Parker: youtu.be/as7Gkm7Y7h4 You can read Hamming's own perspective on his discovery of these codes in chapter 12 of "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering". amzn.to/3lwcnmh The viewer Harry Li made an interactive on this topic: harryli0088.github.io/hamming-code/ Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld Hungarian: Fabó Bence Spanish: agustin-j ------------------ These animations are largely made using manim, a scrappy open-source python library: github.com/3b1b/manim If you want to check it out, I feel compelled to warn you that it's not the most well-documented tool, and it has many other quirks you might expect in a library someone wrote with only their own use in mind. Music by Vincent Rubinetti. Download the music on Bandcamp: vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue1brown Stream the music on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1dVyjwS8FBqXhRunaG5W5u ------------------ 3blue1brown is a channel about animating math, in all senses of the word animate. And you know the drill with YouTube, if you want to stay posted on new videos, subscribe: 3b1b.co/subscribe Various social media links: Website: 3blue1brown.com Twitter: twitter.com/3blue1brown Reddit: reddit.com/r/3blue1brown Instagram: instagram.com/3blue1brown_animations/ Patreon: patreon.com/3blue1brown Facebook: facebook.com/3blue1brown