What remains (sans the final digit) is your specific account number within that bank. The final digit, sometimes called the “check digit,” has nothing to do with financial institutions. Issuers tack ...

A numeric digit used to ensure that account numbers are entered accurately into the computer. Check digits are computed when the numbers are generated, and they become part of the number, often at the ...

Computers in working order and with correct software don’t make mistakes. People, however, make plenty of mistakes (including writing bad software or breaking computers). In quality circles, there’s a ...

Had you asked G H Hardy – the Cambridge scholar responsible for myriad seminal mathematical results and developments of the early 20th century – what his favorite area of math was, he’d answer without ...