We derive a new estimate for the error term in the binomial approximation to the distance distribution of BCH codes. This is an improvement on the earlier bounds by Kasami-Fujiwara-Lin (1985), Vladuts-Skorobogatov (1991), and Krasikov-Litsyn (1995).
['Osnat Keren', 'Simon Litsyn']
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