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You could replicate the Word file twice, using 1752 kB, and it'll correct up to ≈7 million one-bit errors as long as there is at most one error at three equivalent bit offsets.

And that is why for error correction, the number of error it is guaranteed to always correct is a pretty important metric too!

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