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by Joker_vD 374 days ago
You could replicate the Word file twice, using 1752 kB, and it'll correct up to ≈7 million one-bit errors as long as there is at most one error at three equivalent bit offsets.
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And that is why for error correction, the number of error it is guaranteed to always correct is a pretty important metric too!