Erasure code: Difference between revisions

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<math>v_{e}= - \sum_{i=1 ,i \neq e }^{k+1}v_i</math>.

===Err-mail (special case where n=2)===

Alice wants to send her telephone number (555629) to Bob using err-mail. Err-mail works just like e-mail, except

#About half of all the mail gets lost.<ref>Some versions of this story refer to the err-mail daemon.</ref>