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Two of the most striking applications of finite fields to computer science are to the theory of shift registers and to coding. Both are of great practical importance. Here we will be concerned only with elementary theory.
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Gårding, L., Tambour, T. (1988). Shift registers and coding. In: Algebra for Computer Science. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8797-8_8
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