Totally Disjoint 3-Digit Decimal Check Digit Codes

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Main Author: Dunning, Larry A.
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contents In 1969 J. Verhoeff provided the first examples of a decimal error detecting code using a single check digit to provide protection against all single, transposition and adjacent twin errors. The three versions of such a code that he presented are length 3-digit codes with 2 information digits. Existence of a 4-digit code would imply the existence of 10 such disjoint 3-digit codes. This paper presents 3 pairwise disjoint 3-digit codes. The codes developed herein, have the property that the knowledge of the multiset of digits included in a word is sufficient to determine the entire codeword even though their positions were unknown. Thus the codes are permutation-free, and this fulfills Verhoeff's desire to eliminate "cyclic errors". Phonetic errors, where 2 digit pairs of the forms X0 and 1X are interchanged, are also eliminated.
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spellingShingle Totally Disjoint 3-Digit Decimal Check Digit Codes
Dunning, Larry A.
Information Theory
Combinatorics
68P30, 94B25, 05B15, 05B40, 20N15
H.1.1; G.2.1; F.2.1
In 1969 J. Verhoeff provided the first examples of a decimal error detecting code using a single check digit to provide protection against all single, transposition and adjacent twin errors. The three versions of such a code that he presented are length 3-digit codes with 2 information digits. Existence of a 4-digit code would imply the existence of 10 such disjoint 3-digit codes. This paper presents 3 pairwise disjoint 3-digit codes. The codes developed herein, have the property that the knowledge of the multiset of digits included in a word is sufficient to determine the entire codeword even though their positions were unknown. Thus the codes are permutation-free, and this fulfills Verhoeff's desire to eliminate "cyclic errors". Phonetic errors, where 2 digit pairs of the forms X0 and 1X are interchanged, are also eliminated.
title Totally Disjoint 3-Digit Decimal Check Digit Codes
topic Information Theory
Combinatorics
68P30, 94B25, 05B15, 05B40, 20N15
H.1.1; G.2.1; F.2.1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05326