Nah, for sure he tried to say that a single check digit verification has
an efficience of only 90%, 10% error tolerant, but he should inverted
words... otherwise you can be right, he can be a complete ignorant about
it.
Wagner.

"Paul B. Webster VK2BZC" wrote:
>
> Tom Mariner wrote:
>
> > ... ask me why I wanted to use check digits on the loan numbers since
> > randomly the technique would only catch 1 in 10 errors.
>
>   *Only* catch 1 in 10 errors?  He obviously didn't have a clue!
> --
>   Cheers,
>         Paul B.