In string transformation we try to create "redundancy" by endeavoring to transmit the same string more than once. Even if the strings are not transmitted cleanly but distorted by noise, a mathematical procedure can compare the repeated instances treating similarities between them as "signal" and differences between them as "noise." Attempts to render meaning clear, on the other hand, involve repeating the message using many varied strings in an attempt to make interpretations cohere; sending the same string over and over again will add nothing to meaning transfer, however useful it was in the
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