| dc.contributor.author |
Kamaku, Waweru |
|
| dc.contributor.author |
Mwathi, Cecilia |
|
| dc.contributor.author |
Kivunge, Bernard |
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2015-05-29T13:38:16Z |
|
| dc.date.available |
2015-05-29T13:38:16Z |
|
| dc.date.issued |
2012 |
|
| dc.identifier.citation |
American International Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 2 No. 2 ; February 2012 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://aijcrnet.com/journals/Vol_2_No_2_February_2012/18.pdf |
|
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1177 |
|
| dc.description.abstract |
The
I
nternational
S
tandard
B
ook
N
umber system (ISBN
-
10)
which was in operation until 2007 uniquely identified
every book published internationally
but was later replaced with the ISBN
-
13
. The code
was
had the ability to
detect and correct single errors, to detect and correct some transposition errors and also d
etect multiple errors.
This paper discusses some major limitations in the code and shows how error detection and correction
capabilities affected the total dictionary on the code.
The paper then shows the great need that lead to the
development of
the ISBN |
en_US |
| dc.language.iso |
en |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Code |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Dictionary |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
ISBN - 10 |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Error detection |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Error Correction |
en_US |
| dc.title |
LIMITATIONS IN THE CONVECTIONAL ISBN - 10 CODE |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Article |
en_US |