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This document summarizes a journal article about new ternary sequences called generalized pseudorandom number sequences. The article presents new admissibility conditions for these sequences and acknowledges useful discussions that informed the work.

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A New Multilevel Coding Method Using Error-Correcting Codes - Correction To

This document summarizes a journal article about new ternary sequences called generalized pseudorandom number sequences. The article presents new admissibility conditions for these sequences and acknowledges useful discussions that informed the work.

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784 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION’ THEORY, VOL. IT-23, NO.

6, NOVEMBER 1977

missibility conditions for ternary GPN sequences lead to many Correction to “A New Multilevel Coding Method Using
new ternary GPN sequences. Error-Correcting Codes”

ACKNOWLEDGMENT HIDEKIIMAI, MEMBERIEEE,AND SHUJIHIRAKAWA, STUDENT


MEMBER, IEEE
The author wishes to acknowledge useful discussions with Dr.
J. Krishnamurthy of Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, In the above paper,l equation (3) and its following line should
NY, and Dr. V. K. Bhargava of the University of Concordia, have read as follows:
Canada. The author also wishes to thank the anonymous referees
for correcting many errors in an earlier draft of this paper and pArIs “.Si)
for drawing attention to some earlier work. =E ---s$o PM(rlsl...sM)P(si+l...sMIS1...Si) (3)
s;+1=0
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Book Reviews

Optics and Information Theory-Francis T. S. Yu (New York: A publisher owes his authors and readers more than a per-
Wiley, 1976, 203 pp., $14.95) functory glance at a manuscript before setting it into type, put-
ting it on the market, and collecting his profit. Creative scientists
CARL W. HELSTROM like Professor Yu cannot be expected also to be skillful writers,
and when they take time from their research in order to give us
This work treats a great many subjects within a thin volume: the benefit of their experienced thought about such broad and
information theory, the discrete and the Gaussian channels, significant topics as “optics and information theory,” they de-
diffraction theory, Fourier analysis, the sampling theorem, serve competent editorial assistance. It is apparent through much
matched filtering, detection theory, variable-length source of this book that the author knows what he wants to say, but
coding, thermodynamics, entropy, Maxwell’s and kindred de- needs help in saying it clearly; and that help it is the publisher’s
mons, photon counting, image restoration, and quantum infor- duty to provide.
mation channels-all in only two hundred and three pages! An Expert technical review before publication would also have
ambitious project, if only Professor Yu had been able to carry it been beneficial. A reviewer might have objected to the several
off. Unfortunately, the book shows signs of hasty preparation, abuses of Heisenberg’s time-energy uncertainty principle AEAt
and it is clear that the writer received little help from his pub- 1 h/4a (not h as in this book). Precise definitions of AE and At
lisher. are never given, and indeed, the interpretation of this inequality
Where was John Wiley & Sons’ copyeditor when sentences like is fraught with conceptual difficulties, as Allcock has shown in
these passed into immortal print? detail [l]. Merely to put E = h.v and associate this inequality with
“One can easily imagine that without light present civilization a Fourier transform relation AvAt L 1, as in Chapter 2, is
could never exist” (p. 1). gratuitously to introduce misconceptions. The uncertainty
“Although everyone seems to know the word information, a principle is brought in again at the beginning of Chapter 6 with
fundamental theoristic concept may not be the case” (pp. the sentence, “Time and energy smaller than Plan&s constant
l-2). cannot be observed or measured simultaneously”; and from the
“It is noted that the surface integral of the lens may be assumed inequalities AEAt L h and AE > ykT we find on p. 137 the
to be of infinite extent, since the lens is very large compared to mathematically questionable inequality At 5 h/ykT derived and
the spatial apertures at Pr and Ps paraxiality” (p. 59). interpreted. The uncertainty principle suffers its worst humili-
“In the classical theory of light, an observation can be made ation in Chapter 7 when it is linked to an inequality from pho-
as small as we please. However, for some very small objects this tography, It L Eo, “where Eo is the minimum energy (exposure)
assumption does not hold true” (p. 112). per unit area of the film required for an object to be properly

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