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To: Alamo-Girl; Kevmo; TXnMA
Messages are not probabilistic.

Oh so true, dearest sister in Christ! Dear Kevmo, please note.

229 posted on 02/26/2014 9:11:47 AM PST by betty boop (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. —Thomas Jefferson)
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To: betty boop

I’m an ethernet expert. People have been sending messages over ethernet for decades, trillions of them, and all of them are probabilistic. In 100Mbit ethernet, the defined bit error rate is 10^-9, and the retransmission protocol calls for 16 times before the transmitter node gives up. There has been plenty of communication, plenty of information sent over copper wires, a 300 page specification agreed to, and $billions made without anyone having to redefine the word “information”. There would be no point to it.


230 posted on 02/26/2014 9:22:47 AM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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