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Subject: Re: Some advice required [OT]
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On Monday, 27 December 2021 at 19:56:10 UTC+1, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> On 2021-12-27 19:41, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: 
> > On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 04:29:06 -0800 (PST), Laurent 
> > <lut...@icloud.com> declaimed the following:
> > 
> >> Why I would choose result from strain B over the result from strain 
> >> A. 
> >> 
> >> strain A: SSSRSS strain B: SSRRRS 
> >>
> >> Simply counting the number of S, I and R doesn't work. ?Checksum
> >> with/without weight for the column number doesn't work either. 
> >
> > I wouldn't expect a checksum to be of any use, since the idea of 
> > most checksums (and CRCs) is to be able to verify that a data 
> > sequence has not been corrupted. Checksums don't "rank" data. 
> 
> 
> I believe that Laurent does not mean "checksum" in its usual meaning, 
> but a numerical "score" computed as a sum of terms multiplied by 
> weights. Whether such a score can solve Laurent's problem is not clear.

I used the algorithm for calculating the checksum for the GTIN in barcodes as
starting point so I got stuck on the term checksum.

Half of the problem is finding the correct word with which to feed google to find an answer.