UIC Identification Marking For Tractive Stock - Check Digit

Check Digit

The check digit is calculated from digits 1-11. It is derived from the sum of the numbers that arise when the digits are alternately multiplied by 2 and 1; the difference of this sum from the next multiple of ten produces the check digit (for examples of this see wagon numbers).

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