BCH code
Códigos BCH
- Date
- 1959 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Credited to
- Alexis Hocquenghem (France, 1959) and, independently, Raj Chandra Bose and Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri (University of North Carolina, US, 1960)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Alexis Hocquenghem, and independently Raj Chandra Bose and Dijen Ray-Chaudhuri, created a family of error-correcting codes that lets the number of correctable errors be fixed in advance.
What it led to
- Error correction in compact discs and DVDs
- USB flash drives and solid-state drives
- Satellite communications
- Two-dimensional barcodes