Check codes are designed to pick up common errors such as
transposing two digits or miscopying a single digit. A person
types the code number into a machine which decides whether it is
a valid code or not. If someone types in a US Postal Service
Money Order number and makes a single error, just one mistake in
one digit, will the machine pick up every error of this type?
Will a machine always pick up an error in a single digit for an
airline ticket number?
US Postal
Service Money Order : This is an eleven digit number using
digits 1,2,...9 where the sum of the first ten digits is
congruent to the eleventh digit modulo 9. That is $a_1a_2\cdots
a_{11}$ where $a_1+ \cdots +a_{10} \equiv a_{11}$ mod $9$.
Airline
tickets : This number can be any length. It uses the
digits 0 to 9 and the last digit is a check digit. The number
formed by omitting the check digit must be congruent to the check
digit modulo 7.
That is $a_1\cdots a_na_{n+1}$ where $a_1a_2\cdots a_n \equiv
a_{n+1}$ mod 7.