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Redundancy in Computers

One way to make a machine or a biological system more reliable is to design it to work even if some parts fail. This requires extra parts, so arranged that they interact to suppress errors

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 210 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Redundancy in Computers” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 210 No. 2 (), p. 103
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0264-103