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by cupantae 556 days ago
Could you give a reference on this 97 rule? I’m intrigued.
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I was also intrigued, so I searched and on wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num... ), in the section "Validating the IBAN" it is written :

    Interpret the string as a decimal integer and compute the remainder of that number on division by 97
    If the remainder is 1, the check digit test is passed and the IBAN might be valid