[PLUG-TALK] way off topic - CRC error correction, proper choice of algorithm

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> This will amuse some of you that do numerical computation.  The rest
> of you can ignore it.  I am posting here so that it will get into the
> public records.  It has little to do with Linux, though it may come
> in handy for folks doing error correction on data records.
> 
> I am generating some long bit strings that may rarely develop one bit
> error, and very rarely develop two.  I want to use a cheap error 
> correction test and permutation (changing one or two bits) to do the
> error correction.  

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Why do I think you've re-invented some wheel here? ;)