<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">what does 'arbitrarily small' mean? bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:14 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:25 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>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. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><font size="4">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.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div><br></font><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_-5397603513541489075gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="m_-5397603513541489075gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="m_-5397603513541489075gmail-m_7115062867003712861HOEnZb"><div class="m_-5397603513541489075gmail-m_7115062867003712861h5"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>
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