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From: Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>
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Subject: Re: Triple parity and beyond
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:08:59PM +0100, Andrea Mazzoleni wrote:
[...]

I've a side question, a bit OT, but maybe you
could help with the answer.

How about par2? How does this work?
They claim "Vendermonde" matrix and they seem
to be quite flexible in amount of parities.
The could be in GF(2^16), so maybe this makes
a difference...

bye,

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piergiorgio