“…Finally, the proposed unified unknown syndrome representation algorithm implemented on an INTEL Core i3 530 personal computer has been verified through a software simulation using C++ language. For the (17,9,5), (23,12,7) and (41, 21,9) quadratic residue codes, experimental results show that the method presented here is faster than the Lagrange interpolation method developed previously in [12]. An illustrative example of decoding the (31, 16,7) quadratic residue code by the inverse-free BerlekampMassey algorithm is also shown.…”