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The Wikipedia page didn't seem to mention other similar systems created historically to impede modification/miscomprehension.

China has a separate set of accounting number glyphs specifically for this purpose, as the regular numbers 1-9, 100, 1,000 and 10,000 (一二三四五六七八九十百千萬) are obviously easy to change, for example 一 to 十 or 千, 二 to 三, 八 to 九, etc. The replacements are 壹貳參肆伍陸柒捌玖拾佰仟萬.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numbers#Standard_numbe... for background.



Also check out also a mistranscription error database I defined in BNF at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/mas... to help with rebuilding errors made by humans from invalid checksum IBANs.




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