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In this case, the values whose parity we're considering are the number of 1s in each digit place of our binary sums. And that's why we can say that 2 and 0, both even numbers, can be treated as equivalents.
As a verb, for example, " to proof" means to look at a piece of writing to make sure there are no mistakes;this is called " proofreading" or simply " proofing (something)" .
You might think that limiting a parity check to half the bits makes it less effective, but when it's done in conjunction with other well-chosen parity checks, it counterintuitively gives us something more powerful.
Needless to say, there is more code to write here, like doing the meta-parity check to detect two-bit errors, but the idea is that almost all of the core logic from our scheme comes down to a single xor reduction.
Second, TCP requires that once a computer has correctly received a packet – and the data passes the checksum – that it send back an acknowledgement, or " ACK" as the cool kids say, to the sending computer.