The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

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If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Abstract: In this letter, we investigate the guessing codeword decoding (GCD) algorithm and the guessing noise decoding (GND) algorithm for short codes, revealing the universality (in terms of code ...

(i.e., the GCD of two numbers remains the same if the larger number is replaced by its remainder when divided by the smaller number).

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Abstract: This paper is concerned with a guessing codeword decoding (GCD) of linear block codes, which is optimal and typically requires a fewer number of searches than the naive exhaustive search ...

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