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A $(k,\delta,\epsilon)$-locally decodable code $C: F_{q}^{n} \to F_{q}^{N}$ is an error-correcting code that encodes each message $\vec{x}=(x_{1},x_{2},...,x_{n}) \in F_{q}^{n}$ to $C(\vec{x}) \in F_{q}^{N}$ and has the following property:…
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