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Redundancy (information theory)
Redundancy in information theory is the number of bits used to transmit a message minus the number of bits of actual information in the message. Data compression is a way to eliminate unwanted redundancy, while checksums are a way of adding desired redundancy for purposes of error correction when communicating over a noisy channel of limited capacity.
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