How MODeration works
Created | Updated Oct 19, 2003
Every time you add an entry, you see the Anumber thing appear.
These numbers are used by a MODerator function to check for legetimacy.
Numbers of the entry are simply added and the MODerator confirms the outcome. No other remains should exist after the MODerator has done the work. This is a good thing, what if all those entries had leftovers? They would cover the Guide with garbage and unpredicteable behaviour of a link.
Easy:
First we add all the digits.
Then we MODerate the number by 19 a legal entry will produce (as predicted) zero. Any other has some value left.
Eggsamples:
first we got a number
3456789 >>
then we add all digits
3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = 42 >>
now we release the magic MODerator function
42 MOD 19 = 4
BAD entry, will be returned to the holy bitbucket
Now lets take another number
530560 >>
then we add all digits
5+3+0+5+6+0 = 19
now we release the magic MODerator function
19 MOD 19 = 0
Off topic
Perhaps a more easy eggsample using 10:
10 MOD 10 = 0
9 MOD 10 = 9
11 MOD 10 = 1
42 MOD 10 = 2
The remainder, the leftover of the division is the MODulo
