From 0e14170319c7297aa120bff764df472456606016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: <0e14170319c7297aa120bff764df472456606016.1714882375.git.mdw@distorted.org.uk> From: Mark Wooding Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:01:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix description of CRCs. Organization: Straylight/Edgeware From: mdw --- man/crc32.3 | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/crc32.3 b/man/crc32.3 index 79a6bd9..e29f742 100644 --- a/man/crc32.3 +++ b/man/crc32.3 @@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ a given block in a way which doesn't change its (unknown) CRC. .PP The exact behaviour of the CRC is beyond the scope of this manual; suffice to say that the result is, in some suitable representation, the -remainder after division in the finite field GF(2\*(ss32\*(se) of the -block by a carefully chosen polynomial of order 32. +remainder after division by a degree-32 polynomial in GF(2)[x]. .SH "RETURN VALUE" The return value is the 32-bit CRC of the input block. .SH "SEE ALSO" -- [mdw]