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===A[n,d]===

The trade-off between efficiency (large informationrate) and correction capabilities can also be seen from the attempt to, given a fixed codeword length and a fixed correction capability (represented by the [[Hamming distance]] d) maximisemaximize the total amount of codewords. A[n,d] is the maximum number of codewords for a given codeword length n and Hamming distance d.

===Information rate===