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The use of an extra bit on memory chips that serves as a checksum, and can let the operating system know if single-bit memory errors are occurring.
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Parity - On 8 Oct 2004 07:27:55 -0700, neilnewsgroups@hotmail.com (N) wrote:Bob Ward wrote in message news:... On 7 Oct 2004 15:25:19 -0700, neilnewsgroups@hotmail.com (N) wrote:A few years ago, I switched to the checkbooks that have the carbonpaper that makes a copy of your check as you write it. With this, atany time I know exactly what I wrote on any check and never need theoriginal or a copy of a check. This might not prove to be true if a creditor states that you never paid the bill - what would stop oneBy "one," are you referring to me (scenario A, below), or are youreferring to a creditor (scenario B, below)?from writing a check and tearing up the original?A) So I'd write the check, then I'd tear it up myself? And then I'dtry to claim I'd sent the check to the creditor? This also seems veryunlikely. If the creditor doesn't receive my check, then I'd still owethe creditor money. I suppose I could claim to have paid, and then thecreditor could ask for another check and offer to return any extrachecks. But this hasn't happened to me and I doubt it ever will. Onething I've noticed in my life is that people are all too happy toaccept my money and checks!B) So I could write a check to a creditor and then the creditor wouldtear up my check? Seems like a very unlikely scenario. Anyway,assuming a creditor received my check, I'd have a carbon copy of thatcheck in my checkbook.Heck, if I wrote a check to a creditor and then the creditor tore upmy check, then the creditor wouldn't receive my money. Works for me!;-)I was just pointing out that the carbon co[py in your checkbook meansnothing more than at one point you put pen to paper and wrote theinformation on a check. It certainly doesn't prove that the checkreached the payee.
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