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Yeah and what if instead of being the 5th bit it was the 1 millionth bit that was corrupted?
by dataflow 5y ago
Yeah and what if instead of being the 5th bit it was the 1 millionth bit that was corrupted?
- mirekrusin 5y agoFor 1 million bits message where millionth bit is corrupted last bit doesn't have to be read, in general in 3 replica coding, reading first 2 is enough if they are the same - reading last one will have no effect.
- dataflow 5y agoFor heaven's sake... how in the world would you know it's the millionth bit that's corrupted without scanning all 999,999 other bits at least once?!?! Do you data streams always come magically tagged with sentences like "Hey, watch out for bits 999,998-1,000,000, but all my other bits are intact so you can skip them!" or something??! You somehow "know" the error is in the final 3 bits and not in the earlier 999,997 bits because... magic??
- mirekrusin 5y agoNo, it doesn't work that way.