This degree program should be of interest to and is well suited for those who like working on computers and who ordinarily would also be interested in any of the mathematical sciences (mathematics, computer science, statistics), or any of the natural sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, geological sciences, ...), or any engineering discipline.
Parity bit. A parity bit, or check bit, is a bit added to a string of binary code to ensure that the total number of 1-bits in the string is even or odd. Parity bits are used as the simplest form of error detecting code. There are two variants of parity bits: even parity bit and odd parity bit.
Some RAID groups -- such as RAID 4 or RAID 5 -- use one or more disk drives that contain parity information to enable them to rebuild data in case of a drive failure. When data is written to a RAID group, it will always have the correct parity as it will have gone through various error checking algorithms.