From: "Aaron D. Gifford" <astounding@...>
Date: 2011-12-01T11:04:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Stupid question

I Admin Tensor's solution modified to support digit strings up to 1149
characters long (which is the path my muddled brain was meandering
down in my prior post):

irb(main):001:0> s="2011";s.sum%(48*s.size)
=> 4

And to verify worst-case a string of 1149 nine digits:

irb(main):002:0> s="9"*1149;s.sum%(48*s.size)
=> 10341

For longer strings, pass an argument to String#sum bigger than the default 16.

Of course using non-arabic UTF-8 encoded digits makes things very
intersting (a.k.a. fail), a la Devanagari digit six (the first
non-arabic UTF code point for a digit my search turned up):
0x096c.chr(Encoding::UTF_8) a.k.a. "\u096C"

Aaron out.