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{{Short description|Algorithms to decode messages}}

{{use dmy dates|date=December 2020|cs1-dates=y}}

In [[coding theory]], '''decoding''' is the process of translating received messages into [[Code word (communication)|codewords]] of a given [[code]]. There have been many common methods of mapping messages to codewords. These are often used to recover messages sent over a [[noisy channel]], such as a [[binary symmetric channel]].