Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] burst error
Date: Friday, 02 Oct 2020, 07:29:07

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > What does "burst error of up to B decimal digits" mean?

In a burst error of B decimal digits, all of the bad
digits lie in a window that contains B consecutive
digits, but some of the bits in that window might be
correct.

For example, if the correct sequence was

  123456789

then any of the following would be called a burst error
of 3 digits:

  100056789  123050789  123456009 123456780
.  ^^^          ^^^           ^^          ^

because in each case the smallest window containing
the bad digits if of length at most B.

But none of the following would:

  023456780  120400789  103050789  120000789
. ^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^      ^^^^^       ^^^^


because the smallest window is longer.

--Stan-