Table 1 - Converting Alphabet Letters to Bit Strings

Use this table as the first step in encoding a message via the error-correcting code.

Letter	Binary String
A	00000
B	00001
C	00010
D	00011
E	00100
F	00101
G	00110
H	00111
I	01000
J	01001
K	01010
L	01011
M	01100
N	01101
O	01110
P	01111
Q	10000
R	10001
S	10010
T	10011
U	10100
V	10101
W	10110
X	10111
Y	11000
Z	11001
space	11010
.	11011
?	11100
!	11101
-	11110
''	11111

Table 2 - Syndrome/ Error table For Decoding

Use this table to find the syndrome corresponding to errors in the code word.

Syndrome	Error
0000	000000000
0001	000000001
0010	000000010
0011	000000011
0100	000000100
0101	000000101
0110	001000000
0111	001000001
1000	000001000
1001	000010000
1010	010000000
1011	000010010
1100	100000000
1101	100000001
1110	000100000
1111	001010000