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How is the parity bit in tape storage computed?

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I'm watching this video and at 5:04 it says that old cassette tape store 1 byte as 7 bit of information and a leading parity bit that could tell whether a bit of information was flipped.

How was that parity bit computed?

Could it be used only to detect errors or also to correct them?


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