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Devised by John G. Fletcher (1934–2012) in the late 1970s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 →
Devised by John G. Fletcher (1934–2012) in the late 1970s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.