That exact same thing happened to me, except that I was using a smaller error rate, and a Hamming(7,4) code for error correction.
After the ordeal was over, I looked at the code that the other guys had been writing. They hadn't started on the error detection and correction -- I'd heard much wailing and gnashing of teeth earlier about how mathematical it was -- and their code (all in one big main function, with no indentation) wouldn't compile. I watched as they spent about an hour randomly permuting it, to no avail.
I'm not sneering at these guys. I'm baffled by them.
After the ordeal was over, I looked at the code that the other guys had been writing. They hadn't started on the error detection and correction -- I'd heard much wailing and gnashing of teeth earlier about how mathematical it was -- and their code (all in one big main function, with no indentation) wouldn't compile. I watched as they spent about an hour randomly permuting it, to no avail.
I'm not sneering at these guys. I'm baffled by them.