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Update exercises/intergalactic-transmission/instructions.md
Co-authored-by: András B Nagy <[email protected]>
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A parity bit is simple way of detecting transmission errors.
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The transmitters and receivers can only transmit and receive _exactly_ eight bits at a time (including the parity bit).
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The parity bit is set so that there is an _even_ number of 1s in each transmission and is always the first bit from the right.
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The parity bit is set so that there is an _even_ number of 1s in each transmission, and the parity bit is always the first bit from the right.
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So if the receiver receives `11000001`, `01110101` or `01000000` (i.e. a transmission with an odd number of 1 bits), it knows there is an error.
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However, messages are rarely this short, and need to be transmitted in a sequence when they are longer.

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