There it was again! The problem with the infinite sum.
worked a while everything good. But this week ES a Mystery has struck again. There was a new cache in a mill. The task was quickly Googled and then to use the sum of the letters are used for coordinate calculation. So no problem. For safety, we did even a check on Google Earth and behold, the position was the middle of a large mountain meadow. A stream which is needed for operating a water mill was necessarily so, there `s not far and wide. After Mail Contact with the owner, it turned out that this had indeed checksum written in the listing, but said the addition of the letter values.
That was not an isolated case. Throughout our Cacherzeit we had such cases on several occasions. It is not all that difficult:
1) normal checksum: The sum is the sum of all digits a number (eg 12, 15, 8 = 1 +2 +1 +5 + 8 = QS 17)
is also a common error when writing in the Listing sum, but the iterated sum mean.
2) iterated sum: from the simple sum is as long formed the digits until only a single digit number remains (eg 12, 15, 8 = 1 +2 +1 +5 +8 = 17 = 1 +7 = QS iterated 8)
Also, there was still the alternating sum that one encounters, however, caching rare.
3) alternating sum: Here are subtracted each number in turn and added. (Eg 12, 15, 8 = 1-2 +1-5 +8 = alternating QS 3)
contrast, would be by the simple addition of the letter values the result of 35 (12 +15 +8), which in the coordinate calculation results in you comes out in a completely different area.
detail, there is the Enlightenment sum again read on Wikipedia.
I hope that through this review, there will be less problems in the cache listing.