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