Coding Theory - I.
Having looked at computers and how they operate, we now turn to the problem
of the representation of information - how do we represent the information
we want to process. Recall that any meaning that a symbol may have depends
on how it is processed; there is no inherent meaning to the bits that the
machine uses. In the synthetic language mentioned in Lecture 4 on the
history of software, the breaking up of the instructions was pretty much
the same for every code instruction and this is true for most languages;
the "meaning" of any instruction is defined by the corresponding subroutine.
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