It is shown that group covariant signals with respect to a specific group w
ith the operation "Exclusive OR", which include binary linear codes as exam
ples, satisfy the condition of the theorem 1 in [Phys. Rev. A 58 (1998) 146
] and the minimum error detection is so-called square-root measurement. (C)
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