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Re:Ask HN: Why do parking tickets across lots of cities foll... by madcaptenor on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @09:37AM (#9569904)
The last digit may be a check digit. In particular, it might be the remainder upon dividing the number that the other digits make by 7. For example 82777850 divided by 7 leaves a remainder of 1. Some examples of this check digit scheme:

http://nrich.maths.org/2036 http://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/in_bond_che... (with a clunky implementation) http://www.con-way.com/en/tools_pricing/freight/fr_tools/tra...

Re:Ask HN: Why do parking tickets across lots of cities foll... by davidhegarty on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @12:26PM (#9571247)
BINGO!!! You da man. That's seems to work for all my examples.

Thanks!