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Fletcher's checksum
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English
Alternative forms
en Fletcher checksum
Etymology
Devised by John G. Fletcher (1934–2012) in the late 1970s.
Noun
en comptheory A kind of position-dependent checksum intended to provide error-detection properties approaching those of a cyclic redundancy check but with less computation.
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