DWITE Online Computer Programming Contest, October 2008, Problem 2
A checksum is a type of simple error detection scheme, meant to catch incorrectly entered data, such as typos. Credit cards, for example, use the Luhn algorithm to generate account numbers. Alternatively, a checksum number could be a digit appended to the end of data that is being validated.
A super-simple scheme used to validate 6 digit student numbers is as follows:
- Break the number up into 6 digits
- Add up all the digits together to get a new number
- Repeat the process until the result is only a single digit
- Match the resulting digit to the capital letter of the alphabet, in that position
Example
123456
1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21
2+1 = 3
3 = C
The input will contain 5 lines, 6-digit positive integers, followed by a space and a capital letter. Numbers will not have leading zeros, and thus digits will never add up to .
The output will contain 5 lines, stating match
or error
, depending if the number generates the same checksum letter as supplied, or not.
Sample Input
123456 C
123456 A
100000 A
111111 F
111114 I
Sample Output
match
error
match
match
match
Problem Resource: DWITE
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