I would say that the lower bound is 18. Because we want to represent a 23 bits string by 12 bits codewords, the max distance between 2 codewords is 11 bits. So the protocol would be to agree on a dictionary of 12 bits…
I would say that the lower bound is 18. Because we want to represent a 23 bits string by 12 bits codewords, the max distance between 2 codewords is 11 bits. So the protocol would be to agree on a dictionary of 12 bits…