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Yes, this is it.

It's a very shallow introduction to Galois Fields but it's just barely enough to reach Reed Solomon encoding and understand error correction codes.

As I said earlier: it's a lot of math, even in this simplified form. Abstract conceptual math. But I do find this kind of abstractness very fun.




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