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- From: jnoh@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jay W. Noh)
- Subject: Re: Illinois drivers license numbers
- Message-ID: <By3xoE.91H@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:48:13 GMT
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- In article <BxvtzC.3B2@cs.uiuc.edu> noe@cs.uiuc.edu (Roger Noe) writes:
- >In article <BxrtIJ.MqI@ddsw1.mcs.com> dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) writes:
- >>mwbg9715@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Wayne Blunier) wrote in
- >><BxqpKH.15r@news.cso.uiuc.edu>:
- >>
- >>| If you let someone copy your drivers license number down, they have the
- >>| information that is needed to determine your sex and birthdate. They
- >>| are coded in last 5 digits of your D.L, as last two digits of the year,
- >>| and then (month of birth minus 1) * 31 + day of month. Add 500 if
- >>| [the licensee is] female. ^^^
- >>
- >>600. Female birthday codes range from 601-972 and male birthday codes
- >>from 001-372.
- >
- >After exchanging some e-mail with others, it appears that the
- >algorithm behind assignment of Illinois drivers license numbers is
- >mostly known. Perhaps someone can fill in the few remaining gaps.
- >There are 12 characters in one of these license numbers:
- >
- >1. The first letter of the surname.
- >
- >2-4. Soundex code for the consonants of the surname AFTER (excluding)
- > the first letter. Padded out with zeroes, if necessary. Does
- > anyone have the whole Soundex table handy? All I can remember
- > is that M and N are 5.
- >
-
- I think IL uses the same one as Wisconsin.
- The following is the soundex for WI.
-
- 1: B F P V
- 2: C G J K Q S X Z
- 3: D T
- 4: L
- 5: M N
- 6: R
- 0 (ommitted): A E I O U H W Y
-
- [...stuff deleted...]
- >If anyone can either add to this or contradict it, your follow-up or
- >e-mail reply is welcome.
- >--
- >Roger Noe noe@cs.uiuc.edu
- >Department of Computer Science 40:06:39 N. 88:13:41 W.
- >University of Illinois (217) 244-6173
- >Urbana, IL 61801 USA
-
-
- Anyone differ?
-
- Jay
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