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How can a scratched CD or a distant spacecraft fix errors nobody ever saw?
A CD can lose a 2.5 mm stripe of data to a scratch and still play perfectly, thanks to a trick with polynomials from 1960.
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A CD can lose a 2.5 mm stripe of data to a scratch and still play perfectly, thanks to a trick with polynomials from 1960.
Tap to go on, or swipe →