Using a 16-bit CRC:
using the example of [17, 24, 6, 73]
Step 1: treat the entire message block as a single binary number. So you'll get:
(17) 00010001, (24) 00011000, (6) 00000110, (73) 01001011 = 286 787 147 in decimal (you need to convert the binary numbers into decimal for the next step to...