International Journal of Mathematics And Computer Research

Abstract

Almost all undergraduate text books on error-correcting codes are found to focus on binary error- correcting codes hardly ever mentioning their ternary counterparts, though ternary codes are as interesting as binary ones and are in use from long time ago. In this context one might recall that Morse code is just a simple instance of a very useful ternary codes. In this document we discuss ternary BCH codes and use a simple example to illustrate how a ternary 2-error correcting BCH code could be created and how it can be used to correct the bit-errors that are likely to appear during the transmission of a message through a channel.