[ExI] physics question

[John Clark]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:26 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> what does 'arbitrarily small' mean?  bill w
>

State the amount of error you're willing to tolerate and by increasing the
file size by a small amount Shannon will tell you how to get a error rate
equal to or smaller than that .

John K Clark







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> 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.
>>
>>  John K Clark
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