Checkdigit

[mail]

I need to calculate a check digit for 20,000 large numbers in excel
I can manually do it as follows:
The Number is 33 digits long, each digit is multiplied alternating 1,2,1,2 the right most figure in the products are added together, the right most figure in the sum is subtracted from ten creating the check digit. ten is not a check digit it would be 0. Any help would be appreciated!

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5</SPAN>

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5</SPAN>

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10</SPAN>

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52</SPAN>

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10</SPAN>

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[shg]

Welcome to the board.

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  1   115012000501024632013126000002500 8

The formula in B1 is

=10 - MOD(SUMPRODUCT(MID(A1, ROW(INDIRECT("1:33")), 1) * MID("12", MOD(ROW(INDIRECT("1:33")) - 1, 2) + 1, 1)), 10)

 

[mail]

That works Thanks, How would I modify it for differnt length numners?

 

[shg]

See the two 33's in the formula?

 

[shg]

Oops:

=MOD(10 - SUMPRODUCT(MID(A1, ROW(INDIRECT("1:33")), 1) * MID("12", MOD(ROW(INDIRECT("1:33")) - 1, 2) + 1, 1)), 10)

 

[mail]

I changed the 33's to 51's and it seems to work, I had been doing a replace 10 with 0, but the formula is simpler . How does this formula work in words?
Thanks

 

[shg]

The first MID function returns an array of individual digits, the second returns the array {1,2,1,2,...}, the SUMPRODUCT mutiplies them and tallies the sum, the result is subtracted from 10, and the MOD function gives the remainder after successive divisions by 10.