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Representing Elements of Galois Fields

This section describes how to create a Galois array, which is a MATLAB expression that represents elements of a Galois field. This section also describes how MATLAB interprets the numbers that you use in the representation, and includes several examples. The topics are

• Creating a Galois Array

• Example: Creating Galois Field Variables

• Example: Representing Elements of GF(8)

• How Integers Correspond to Galois Field Elements

• Example: Representing a Primitive Element

• Primitive Polynomials and Element Representations

Galois Field Terminology

Creating a Galois Array

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