Re: Barcodes & error detection

"Anders Isaksson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.lego.robotics
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Brian Davis wrote:
> How can it tell a "misreading" of a barcode from just a different barcode?

Maybe by having every barcode begin and end with the same 'prefix' and 
'suffix' sequence (prefix <> suffix)?

It takes more bits, but if you manage to read the prefix and the suffix 
correctly (as you know what they should be) you could be relatively 
confident that the message portion in the middle also was correctly read.

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