Error Correction Capacity of Unary Coding
  Unary coding has found applications in data compression, neural network training, and in explaining the production mechanism of birdsong. Unary coding is redundant; therefore it should have inherent error correction capacity. An expression for the error correction capability of unary coding for the correction of single errors has been derived in this paper. 
Pushpa Sree Potluri
cs.IT math.IT