"erasure code" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: erasure codes [plural]
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  1. (information theory) A forward-error-correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of k symbols into a longer message with n symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the n symbols. Wikipedia link: erasure code Categories (topical): Information theory Hyponyms: fountain code

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