self-checking code

self-checking code

[′self ¦chek·iŋ ′kōd]

(computer science)

An encoding of data so designed and constructed that an invalid code can be rapidly detected; this permits the detection, but not the correction, of almost all errors. Also known as error-checking code; error-detecting code.

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