Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!radio.astro!helios!root
From: root@helios.toronto.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: SIN Checksum Calculations
Keywords: SIN, Ambiguity
Message-ID: <676@helios.toronto.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 88 17:39:55 GMT
References: <422@perle.UUCP>
Reply-To: sysruth@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Ruth Milner)
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
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In article <422@perle.UUCP> dave@perle.UUCP (Dave LeReverend) writes:
>Mark Bartelt has pointed out an ambiguity in my posting of December 20.
>
>When I said, in step 1, "even digits", I meant "digits that occupy an even
>position".  I did not mean "digits which have even values".
>
>A similar clarification should be applied to step 4.
>

That clears it up nicely. I tried it again with the clarified algorithm,
and this time it worked fine.

Apologies for jumping the gun. Evidently the holder's gender plays no part
in the number.




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