Re: [asa] Information and knowledge

*Do you mean "error correction" rather than "data compression" or am I
> missing something.*

Here my underwear may be showing as a non-engineer. I think I meant "error
correction" in the context of "data compression." Data is compressed to get
it through the pipe or into memory efficiently, and must be uncompressed and
errors then corrected when retrieved / delivered.

On 4/12/07, Dave Wallace <wdwllace@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> David Opderbeck wrote:
> > That's why I said "/relatively/ lossless." I'm well aware the Shannon
> > deals with compression and lossy environments. The transfer from laptop
> > hard drive to flash memory stick is "relatively" lossless exactly
> > because engineers have gotten pretty good at data compression. If only
> > my transfer of it into my student's brains could be so efficient!
> >
>
> Do you mean "error correction" rather than "data compression" or am I
> missing something.
>
> Dave W
>
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Received on Thu Apr 12 15:06:04 2007