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 | C.8.3 Generalized Newton identities
  The error-locator polynomial is defined by
     If this product is expanded,   then the coefficients  are the elementary symmetric functions in
  the error locations     Generalized Newton identities
  The syndromes 
   Decoding up to error-correcting capacity
  We have 
   and  .
  Replace the syndromes by variables and obtain the following set of polynomials  in the variables  and  :           
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