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error-correcting code

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error-correcting code [′er·ər kə¦rek·tiŋ ′kōd]
(computer science)
Data representation that allows for error detection and error correction if the error is of a specific kind.


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It may improve the design of mathematical procedures called error-correcting codes used in computers to interpret noisy data.
When the late Claude Shannon launched the theory of error-correcting codes in the 1940s, high-dimensional sphere packing instantly became a hot topic, Cohn says.
Error-correcting code (ECC) support for enhanced system reliability.
 
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