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		fraserphysics 7 days ago \| 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 7 days ago [–]

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

fraserphysics 7 days ago | [–]

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

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