LH PK-Number Control Code



Enter Your Personnel No. Your Control-Letter will be computed.
E. g., my personnel number is 5111 and the Letter is 'D'.

Description

The control-codes 'ABCDEFGHIK' are mapped to the numbers 0-9 in the way:
    A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7, H=8, I=9, K=0.
The control equation Lufthansa uses is the 137-code:
    a1 + 3*a2 + 7*a3 + a4 + 3*a5 + 7*a6 + a7 = 0 (modulo 10)
So my number 005111 D has (a1,...,a7)=(0,0,5,1,1,1,4) which satisfies the equation.

When I joined the company, I calculated the equation from the numbers of some collegues assuming a modulo 10 code. As I saw the 137 pattern I knew I was correct. I was worried about the number of one person, as it does not fit. But it turns out that his number (equal his account) had been typed in wrong.

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How looks such a simple equation in your favorit script language? I tried some. The filter variants are reading lines from stdin and assume that the first word is a pk-number.


Torsten Sillke