Re: I know this won't work, I just want to know -why-.

dalek_no2@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
 > Why, therefore, would it be impossible to take a file, create just over

50% redundancy for it, delete the original file, create a -completely
random- file of exactly the same size, and apply the recovery data to
the random file?  Statistically, only about half of the bits should be
wrong

Yes, so you have 50% redundancy becoming 50% of the original file. You only have half of the information. This is the same as throwing away every second bit of your source file. Why you'd want to do this is totally beyond me.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
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