Comment Comment by dbfclark Presumably the extra credit is that the binary Golay code is closely related to the Leech Lattice, and thus to the entire moonshine situation, which gets you to string theory. See:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech_lattice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine http://motls.blogspot.com/2015/03/umbral-moonshine-and-golay... parent dbfclark 9 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech_lattice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine http://motls.blogspot.com/2015/03/umbral-moonshine-and-golay...