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They describe deleting characters, but most radiation causes bit flips, rather than character removal. Good news, this seems to work with a bitflip as well :)
by codezero 8y ago
They describe deleting characters, but most radiation causes bit flips, rather than character removal. Good news, this seems to work with a bitflip as well :)
- colossal 8y agoI think the result would be the same no? Assuming the characters are stored in ASCII the result of a single bit flip can only possibly modify one character. Of course this assumes the program is resilient against modification in general and not just deletion (which seems to be the case).
- codezero 8y agoI wouldn’t assume so. A character has a lot of bits. So it kind of depends on how the stream is processed I think.