Damm Algorithm

In error detection, the Damm algorithm is a check digit algorithm that detects all single-digit errors and all adjacent transposition errors. It was presented by H. Michael Damm in 2004. Its essential part is a quasigroup of order 10 (i.e. having a 10×10 Latin square as operation table) with the special feature of being totally anti-symmetric. Damm revealed several methods to create such TA-quasigroups of order 10 and gave some examples in his doctoral dissertation. With this, Damm also disproved an old conjecture that TA-quasigroups of order 10 do not exist.

									public static char CheckSum(string number)
{
	const string table = "0317598642709215486342068713591750983426612304597836742095815869720134894536201794386172052581436790";
	char interim = '0';

	for (int i = 0; i < number.Length; ++i)
	{
		if ((number[i] - '0') > 9)
			return '-';

		interim = table[(number[i] - '0') + (interim - '0') * 10];
	}

	return interim;
}

public static bool Validate(string number)
{
	return CheckSum(number) == '0';
}

Example

									char c = CheckSum("572");
bool isValid = Validate("5724");

Output

									c: 4
isValid: true