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What does uncorrectable error mean in RAM? I’ve read somewhere that they use Hamming codes for ECC RAM. Isn’t it the case that too many errors (more than floor((d - 1) / 2)) simply result in an incorrect codeword? Or do they know the error locations a priori? (i.e. erasure coding)

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