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The weight enumerator of a linear code is a classifying polynomial associated with the code. Besides its intrinsic importance as a mathematical object, it is used in the probability theory around codes. For example, the weight enumerator of a binary code is very useful if we want to study the probability that a received message is closer to a different codeword than to the codeword sent. (Or, rephrased: the probability that a maximum likelihood decoder makes a decoding error.)
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