NOUN
- a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage
How To Use checksum In A Sentence
- There's no information on how this is to be done; and somehow I doubt they're running checksums on all the compilers used.
- I find that any cluey 10-year-old can calculate a checksum using this algorithm.
- Although a UPC number has 12 digits (implying a maximum capacity of a trillion items), the first digit is a category code that in practice is almost always, and the final digit is a checksum used for detecting errors.
- Hashing is used in many applications, from passwords and other authentication schemes, to digital signatures and certificates, to creating checksums used to validate files.
- We follow the message with a checksum, so the provider can verify (to some degree) that our message has been faithfully received.
- It calculates checksums for all files on the system and stores these fingerprints in a database.
- I'm not an expert on any of this by any means, but I do know that checksums are used in lots of cases when you want to make sure the date you downloaded is correct and intact. pettiblay How Do You Know If Your Download Really Has A Virus? | Lifehacker Australia
- #find the checksum of string_data string_data = "0123456789abcdef" cksum = checksum (string_data) the checksum will be sum of 01+23+45+ ... +ef (adding each byte) then next result = ~result and finally result = result+1 def checksum (data): return result my main problem is the addition what should i do?? thanks DaniWeb IT Discussion Community
- In some industries, for example, auditors or regulators may require time stamps, checksums or other proofs that long-term archived data has not been altered, or a record of who made any changes to it and when.
- These represent the checksum and associated status flag. Their use is described in Chapter 19.
