check digit
noun[C]
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anumberthat is used in acomputerprogramtohelptofindorpreventerrors
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These three methods use a singlecheckdigitand will therefore fail to capture around 10% of more complex errors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A desirable feature is that left-padding with zeros should not change thecheckdigit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A very simplecheckdigitmethod would be to take the sum of all digits (digital sum) modulo 10.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That result is thecheckdigit, except in the two cases where it is 10 or 11.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecheckdigit(as calculated above) for this sequence is 4.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sum of all these numbers modulo 11 is thecheckdigit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Specifically, if the difference between two adjacent digits is 5, thecheckdigitwill not catch their transposition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecheckdigitis computed using a weighted sum of the first six characters.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The first 9 digits are assigned unique numbers with the 10th digit being acheckdigitfor the identifier.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The class received new four digit numbers beginning with 1, in which the last number is acheckdigitfor the whole number.
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