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LT peeling releases only original degree-one symbols · case 02

Higher-degree symbols are never peeled, leaving many sources unresolved.

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Case contract

Peeling (belief-propagation) decoder for an LT fountain code over bytes. symbols is a list of [neighbour indices, XOR of those source symbols]. Repeatedly find an encoded symbol with exactly one unresolved neighbour, resolve it as the value XOR all resolved neighbours, and continue until a full pass makes no progress. Return the k source values with None for unresolved ones.

Why this case matters

Broadcast and storage systems use fountain codes; peeling must continue as long as new degree-one symbols appear.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

This sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
regression [[[[0, 1, 5], 194], [[0, 4], 132], [[0, 1], 133], [[3, 5], 70], [[0...	`[59, null, null, null, null, 71]`	`[59, 190, 199, 1, 191, 71]`	Failed

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