[comp.misc] ISBN checksum

imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) (05/19/91)

Does anybody know the checksum procedure for ISBN book numbers?

Warner
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hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) (05/21/91)

In <1991May19.022623.2905@solbourne.com> imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) writes:
>Does anybody know the checksum procedure for ISBN book numbers?

1 * 1st digit + 2 * 2nd digit + 3 * 3rd digit + ... + 10 * 10th digit
must be divisible by 11.

Sometimes the last digit is an 'X'; that's a Roman digit with value 10.

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