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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Reed-Solomon error correction, Hamming code, Prefix code, BCH code, Hamming distance, Binary symmetric channel, Distributed source coding, Cyclic code, Hamming(7,4), List-decoding, Factorization of polynomials over a finite field and irreducibility tests, Belief propagation, Low-density parity-check code, Arbitrarily varying channel, Noisy-channel coding theorem, Linear code, Reed-Muller code, Block code, Hamming weight, Network coding, Luby transform code, Shannon's source coding theorem, Kraft's inequality, Erasure code, Decoding methods, N-dimensional space, Concatenated error correction code, Variable-length code, Fountain code, Polynomial code, Hamming bound, Package-merge algorithm, Raptor code, Sardinas-Patterson algorithm, Standard array, Canonical Huffman code, Tornado code, Goppa code, Coding gain, Plotkin bound, Hadamard code, Berger code, Systematic code, Online codes, Singleton bound, Binary erasure channel, Gilbert-Varshamov bound, Elias Bassalygo bound, Ternary Golay code, Gibbs' inequality, Enumerator polynomial, Multiple description coding, Covering code, Bar product, Griesmer bound, Dual code, Parity-check matrix, Quadratic residue code, Johnson bound, List of algebraic coding theory topics, Blackwell channel, Unary coding, Hamming scheme, Channel code, Tanner graph, Group code, Capillary routing, Grammar-based code, Soliton distribution, Justesen code, Preparata code, Generator matrix, Recursive indexing, Lee distance, Minimum distance, Alternant code, Coset leader, Noisy text, Srivastava code, Long code, Puncturing, Hexacode, Zigzag code, Minimum weight, Spherical code, Even code, Z-channel, Packet erasure channel, Hamming space. Excerpt: In coding theory, Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are non-binary cyclic error-correcting codes invented by Irving S. Reed and Gustave Solomon. They described a systemat...