• Case@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    Wait wait wait, did Judaism invent the basic concept of a checksum?

    That is… very interesting. I know numerology and the like are very popular parts of Jewish occultism.

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      2 months ago

      Wouldn’t go quite that far, but given you needed to be relatively educated to qualify for the task it wouldn’t surprise me to learn there were some acceptable tricks for catching or preventing errors that we would recognize as parity checks.