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Information theory and error detection and correction

The following paragraph is slightly misleading:

"Information theory tells us that whatever be the probability of error in transmission or storage, it is possible to construct error correction codes in which the likelihood of failure is arbitrarily low. It gives a bound on the efficiency that such schemes can achieve."

The problem with this is that in case the error is "perfectly random", e.g. for a bit channel, if the error probability per bit is >exactly< 1/2 and bit errors are independant of each other, then there is no code that can preserve >any< information in the channel, e.g. whatever the sender put into the channel, the receiver would only get perfectly random "noise".

Higher bit error probabilities are ok again, because inverting the arriving signal can then be used to invert (1-p) the error probability p to less than 1/2.

No error correction scheme can work if the output of the channel is independent of its input - all error, no data. As the error rate increases, the amount of additional ECC information necessary increases until we get to the extreme for a totally unreliable channel where all bandwidth must be devoted to ECC and no data gets through. I believe the current version of the text at Error detection and correction § Forward error correction correctly implies this. ~Kvng (talk) 23:47, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

EDAC (error detection and correction)

I usually hear the phrase "error detection and correction" (EDAC) rather than "error correction and detection". What does Google say? --DavidCary 00:42, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Article we renamed at one point perhaps in appreciation of this. ~Kvng (talk) 23:54, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My mam have two sisters

My mam have two sisters 84.54.70.181 (talk) 14:03, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient Jewish history should be backed up or deleted

The section on Ancient Jewish bible copyists feels highly anachronistic, and the relevance of its content and cited sources to this article is dubious. I suggest that anyone who believes this section should be kept begin by providing some evidence from a writer (a historian, journalist, scientist, etc.) with expertise in the article's subject that the practice can be traced back to this Ancient Jewish practice. Then we can begin to discuss how pertinent this information to the history of error detection and correction. Otherwise, the relationship is merely associative and folklorish. Zelous cat (talk) 08:48, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

help mony

help me mony 103.106.167.230 (talk) 08:09, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]