Richard Hamming: how one frustrated mathematician made data repair itself
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Frustrated by 1940s computing failures, Richard Hamming invented error-correcting codes in 1950 that use parity bits to mathematically pinpoint and fix flipped bits. Today, servers, SSDs, QR codes, and deep-space probes all rely on this breakthrough.
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