Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoSorry, Cthulhu -- you'll always be my number 2lemmus.orgimagemessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up1676arrow-down129file-text
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minus-squareCase@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoWait 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.
minus-squarericecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWouldn’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.
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.
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.