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Talk abstract:

Factorization of Polynomials Over Fields of Characteristics 2

Shmuel Winograd, University of Chicago

Decoding Reed-Solomon codes calls for finding the roots of polynomials over a field of characteristics 2. This talk will describe a new method for factorizing such polynomials which is primarily efficient for polynomials of small degree.

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