Singleton Bound - Statement of The Bound

Statement of The Bound

The minimum distance of a set of codewords of length is defined as

where is the Hamming distance between and . The expression represents the maximum number of possible codewords in a q-ary block code of length and minimum distance .

Then the Singleton bound states that

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