[ExI] physics question

[William Flynn Wallace]

what does 'arbitrarily small' mean?  bill w

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:14 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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>  John K Clark
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