USAGE: weight of code

[Karen Hallman <hallmanedits -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Hi, All. 

I'm an editor, not a techwriter. I rarely edit in-depth discussions of code.  I have a journal paper that briefly goes into some specifics about code construction. The authors write:

...MIZ code with length n and weight k can be constructed...

and later on:

...we named the code MIZ(r,k,n).

Can a code have a weight? Is this the same as "rank"?

My authors are from China, but this paper will appear in an American journal, so I need the more common term for a U.S. audience. Any thoughts?

Many thanks,

Karen Hallman
HallmanEdits
Member EFA, CSE
hallmanedits -at- adelphia -dot- net or halllmanedits -at- yahoo -dot- com

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