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Codes for Detecting Human Errors
Algebra & Discrete Mathematics| Speaker: | Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, UC Davis |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Fri, Mar 12 2004, 12:10PM |
Description
Substitution errors, where individual characters are altered,
and transposition errors. where two consecutive characters
are interchanged, are commonly caused by human operators. In
this talk, codes that can detect a single substitution error
or a single transposition error are described.
No background is needed to understand this talk beyond sixth
grade math.