Damm algorithm: Difference between revisions

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Despite its desirable properties in typical contexts where similar algorithms are used, the Damm algorithm is largely unknown and scarcely used in practice.

Since prepending leading zeros does not affect the check digit<ref name="fenwick2014" />, variable length codes should not be verified together, since, e.g., 0, 01, and 001, etc. produce the same check digit. All checksum algorithms are vulnerable to this.

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