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In this work, we derive the theoretical bit error rate (BER) error floor expression which enables us to calculate the error floor introduced into the system due to the nulling of data samples affected by impulsive noise, which we then compare to the simulated BER error floor. Results from this work show that the simulated BER error floor values are approximately the same as the theoretical BER error floor values with insignificant differences. 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