CHECKSUM


Meaning of CHECKSUM in English

An error-checking scheme in data communications.When a packet of data is sent,the total of the ASCII character numbers represented by the data is sent along also.At the receiving end,the ASCII characters are totaled,and that sum is compared to the checksum.If they don’t agree,there’s been an error in transmission.

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