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parity check

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parity check
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(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) a check made of computer data to ensure that the total number of bits of value 1 (or 0) in each unit of information remains odd or even after transfer between a peripheral device and the memory or vice versa
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Noun1.parity check - a system of checking for errors in computer functioning
confirmation, substantiation, verification, check - additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"


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lt;p>These performance features include: low-density parity check coding, which improves error correction; transmit beam forming, which uses feedback from a Wi-Fi client to let an access point focus the RF signal on the client; and space-time block coding (STBC), which exploits the multiple antennas more for improved signal reliability than for higher data rates.
Using this bound, in Section 3 we obtain a bound on the number of parity check digits required to achieve the minimum Euclidean square distance at least [d.
The maths behind it is an idea called The Parity Check which is used in computing.
 
 
 
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