This chapter covers parity bits—a simple but effective method for detecting errors in digital data transmission and storage. Parity is one of the most fundamental ...

An error detection technique that tests the integrity of digital data in the computer. Parity checking adds an extra parity cell to each 8-bit byte of memory, thus ...

Not using a parity bit to check for errors. For example, an 8-N-1 setting in a communications program, which was widely used before the Web, means each character transmitted contains (8) eight bits, ...