Talk:Sphere-packing bound

Explanations, please!
I know this isn't simple wikipedia, but this page is just way too abstruse. There needs to be a bit of introduction, with links to other relevant articles, so that the reader gets a bit of context. I came here from close-packing and felt like I had gone through a rabbit-hole: "What, codes? Huh?  A code correcting code-words?  What has this got to do with sphere packing?" --Slashme 12:42, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Merge Discussion
I would vote to merge the Sphere-packing page into the Hamming Bound page, as "Hamming Bound" seems to be the official name of the concept and "sphere-packing bound" is more like a nickname. Plus, it gives more respect to Dr. Hamming. --Culix (talk) 03:02, 31 January 2008 (UTC)