Digital Revolution (Part III) - Error Correction Codes
At first, the fact that there existed error correction codes was merely a tour-de-force of pure mathematics. Claude Shannon showed that there existed codes that could correct errors. He did this by showing that certain long random strings used as code words would do the job. However, his ideas could not be put to immediate practical use.

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