code rate

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    In telecommunication and information theory, the code rate (or information rateHuffman, W. Cary, and Pless, Vera, Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes, Cambridge, 2003.) of a forward error correction code is the proportion of the data-stream that is useful (non-redundant).