USAGE: weight of code

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Mon Jan 1 00:56:27 MST 2007


Thomas Johnson <tajohnson at microlinetc.com> wrote:

> Did you know the guy that came up with the concept was named Ernest. The
> concept is formally known as Ernest Hamming Weight. <grin, duck, and roll>

Actually, Richard Hamming. Very Important Mathematician if signal processing
is of interest. Hamming weight, Hamming distance, Hamming window are all
standard terms. The IEEE gives a Hamming prize.

-- 
Sandy Harris
Quanzhou, Fujian, China



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