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fraserphysics on July 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected...

Don't Shannon's channel coding theorem and rate-distortion theorem establish bounds on possible sphere packing?

meindnoch on July 8, 2025 [–]

That's in Z_{2}^n, not in R^n.

fraserphysics on July 9, 2025 | [–]

I think the result for Gaussian channels is in R^n.

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