Error correcting codes are a signal processing technique to correct errors. They are nowadays ubiquitous, such as in communications (mobile phone, internet), data storage and archival (hard drives, optical discs CD/DVD/BluRay, archival tapes), warehouse management (barcodes) and advertisement (QR codes). Reed–Solomon error correction is a specific type of error correction code. It is one of the oldest but it is still widely used, as it is very well defined and several efficient algorithms are no...