Talk:National identification number

Taiwan

http://jidanni.org/comp/checksums/taiwanidchecksum is Taiwan ID checksum computation, but sorry mostly just the math.

Malaysia

I removed the bit that suggested the last 4 digits may denote the blood type as this is exceedingly unlikely. I have no idea what my blood type even though I'm 24 is nor do I suspect many 12 year old kids when they get their ICs/MyKads (although in my case I could probably work out based on my siblings who do know and I should be able to find out my fathers). It's not something you provide on the form so it's rather unlikely the government will know either. They could in some cases work out from the parents but not all cases (and that's assuming they know the blood type of the parents) Nil Einne 12:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The last 4 digits is randomly generated but the last digit is used to differentiate between male and female using odd and even numbers. The notion of these digits represent specific element, information or segregation is untrue.

Hong Kong

[minor edit] the letters and numbers are of course not arbitrary. Go check out the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKID esp the chinese one will tell you exactly what the letters mean, and there's a math formula for the numbers, hence the check "digit" at the end, duh.