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I don't think anything you wrote is wrong! I have a background in error codes - hamming, and luby and raptor and, and, and. Reed-Solomon is particularly "beaut

I don't think anything you wrote is wrong! I have a background in error codes - hamming, and luby and raptor and, and, and. Reed-Solomon is particularly "beautiful" from a mathematics perspective (more so than Raptor) - something I can usually explain to anyone and get them interested.

kragen 8y ago
Do you want to give it a try? I just attempted to explain RS in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19248444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19248444 but I am significantly impeded by the fact that I don't actually understand it myself, so I'm sort of summarizing the Wikipedia article. Am I focusing on the right algorithms? Did I explain them correctly, as far as my short explanation goes?