18.200 | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate

Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics

Lecture 20: Reed-Solomon Codes

We explain how polynomials can be used to construct Reed-Solomon codes, and how to use the fundamental theorem of algebra to compute their minimum distance. We then explain how to decode them.

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