{HEAD ~ The present invention} relates generally to a method and apparatus for computing soft scaling factors to convert initial symbol estimates of received symbols to {TAIL ~ soft estimates} for decoding 
{ HEAD ~ The present invention } relates generally to a method and apparatus for computing soft scaling factors to convert initial symbol estimates of received symbols to { TAIL ~ soft estimates } for decoding
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