[ExI] physics question

[John Clark]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:25 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> No computer expert here, but I have been told that my Windows software
> corrupts itself over a period of time, and so would up and downloads.
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Every time a computer copies a file there is a chance a error will be made,
however in 1948 Claud Shannon showed us a clever way to make the error rate
arbitrarily small by injecting a modest but carefully placed amount of
redundancy into the file. Without this brilliant insight there is no way
the Internet that we know and love today could exist.

 John K Clark




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