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Richard Hamming

Richard Hamming
Richard Hamming, American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)

Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code, the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing, Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance.

11 February 1915

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