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The BCH code is an error-correcting code that is a generalization of the Reed-Muller error-correcting code used by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

An outlier is an observation that lies outside the overall pattern of a distribution (Moore and McCabe 1999). Usually, the presence of an outlier indicates some sort of ...

(1) Based on or involving trial and error. (2) Convincing without being rigorous.

A Padé approximant perturbed with a Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind to reduce the leading coefficient in the error.

A codeword is an element of an error-correcting code C. If C has length n, then a codeword in C has the form (c_1,c_2,...,c_n), where each c_i is a letter in the alphabet of ...

Let there be x successes out of n Bernoulli trials. The sample proportion is the fraction of samples which were successes, so p^^=x/n. (1) For large n, p^^ has an ...

The degree to which a given quantity is correct and free from error. For example, a quantity specified as 100+/-1 has an (absolute) accuracy of +/-1 (meaning its true value ...

A linear code over a finite field with q elements F_q is a linear subspace C subset F_q^n. The vectors forming the subspace are called codewords. When codewords are chosen ...

A binary Hamming code H_r of length n=2^r-1 (with r>=2) is a linear code with parity-check matrix H whose columns consist of all nonzero binary vectors of length r, each used ...

The process of approximating a quantity, be it for convenience or, as in the case of numerical computations, of necessity. If rounding is performed on each of a series of ...