Fix error in comment on the polynomial representation of a byte.

pull/467/head
Mark Adler 5 years ago
parent 0206436615
commit d71dc66fa8
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      crc32.c

@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ local once_t made = ONCE_INIT;
is just exclusive-or, and multiplying a polynomial by x is a right shift by
one. If we call the above polynomial p, and represent a byte as the
polynomial q, also with the lowest power in the most significant bit (so the
byte 0xb1 is the polynomial x^7+x^3+x+1), then the CRC is (q*x^32) mod p,
byte 0xb1 is the polynomial x^7+x^3+x^2+1), then the CRC is (q*x^32) mod p,
where a mod b means the remainder after dividing a by b.
This calculation is done using the shift-register method of multiplying and

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