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- From: eclark@gauss.math.usf.edu. (Edwin Clark)
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- Subject: Re: Need reference for weighted checksum code
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.160652.22516@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:06:52 GMT
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- In article <1h5618INNgvl@agate.berkeley.edu> gibson@purina.berkeley.edu (richard Gibson) writes:
- >Howdy!
- >
- >Someone recently brought me a problem concerning an error-detecting weighted
- >code with a modulo 11 checksum that she's using in her business.
- >
- >In short, a bunch of items are given 10 digit identification numbers.
- >Let N_i denote the ith digit of the number.
- >Each number has the property that SUM(A_i * N_i) is congruent to 0 mod 11,
- >where {A_i} are weights as follows: {1, 2, 5, 3, 6, 4, 8, 7, 10, 9}.
- >
- >The obvious advantages of this identification system are that no single
- >digit errors in a valid number and no single transposition of digits in
- >a valid number will produce another valid number.
- >
- >Question: What is the advantage of the weights being mixed up like that?
- >(i.e. why isn't A_i just set equal to i?)
- >References about this particular system would be the most appreciated because
- >I know this weighting must have been written about somewhere. I just can't
- >find it.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Richard
- >Gibson@math.ucb.edu
-
-
- Here are some places to look:
-
- Check Character Systems--A. Ecker and G. Poch, Computing 37,
- 277-301 1986
-
- Check Digit Methods --by Joseph A Gallian --I have a preprint
- of this--apparently it has appeared in International J App
- Eng.
-
- Modular Arithmetic in the Marketplace--by Gallian also--I think
- in the Monthly - June-July 1988
-
- J.A.Gallian's address: Dept of Math, Univ of Minnesota,
- A. Ecker's address: Hahn-Meitner_Institut Berlin BmbH
- Bereich Datenverabeitung und Elektronik
- Glienicker Starass 100
- D-1000 Berlin 39
- Germany
-
- Both Gallian and Ecker are quite knowledgeable on this
- subject and I am sure would reply to any inquiries.
-
-
- --Edwin Clark
-
-
- --
- W. Edwin Clark
- Mathematics Department
- University of South Florida
- Tampa, FL 33620-5700
-