A Complete Reed-Solomon Encoding and Decoding Example

By Hugo Lyppens

Dr. Dobb's Journal January 1997

(x4 + x2)  *  (x2 + 1) = (x6 + x2)x8 = x6 + x5 + x4 +1x255 = x0 = 1

Example 2: Multiplication in GF(2⁸) is done modulo f (x)= x⁸ + x⁶ + x⁵ + x⁴ + 1.

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