Etymology

Fletcher's checksum

Today it means: A kind of position-dependent checksum intended to provide error-detection properties approaching those of a cyclic redundancy check but with less computation. Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

Devised by John G. Fletcher (1934–2012) in the late 1970s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.