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2024-06-13 08:42:02

2021 retro-link! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reed-solomon-for-programmers/ - Practical Reed-Solomon for programmers.

Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers - Bert Hubert's writings
Recently I was doing some work decoding the new Galileo High Accuracy Service data. In short, this new service will allow Galileo (“European GPS”) users to achieve decimeter-level accuracy, which is nice. This “HAS” data is transmitted highly redundantly by making good use of Reed-Solomon encoding. To work with this data, I attempted to learn more about Reed-Solomon and I found almost all explanations were useless to me - oodles of advanced math, but no guidance of how to use R-S in pra…