Bose-Chandhuri-Hocquenghem Codes (BCH codes)
Definition/Meaning:
An important family of binary linear error-correcting block codes. They are reasonably efficient and
have reasonably good error-correcting abilities, but their importance lies in
their ease of encoding (by means of shift registers) and of decoding. They can
be regarded as a generalization of Hamming codes, and as a special case of
Reed-Solomon codes. BCH codes can be arranged to be
cyclic.
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