cast out nines
English
editVerb
editcast out nines (third-person singular simple present casts out nines, present participle casting out nines, simple past and past participle cast out nines)
- (arithmetic) To apply a procedure for verifying whether an arithmetic operation is probably correct or certainly incorrect using modulo characteristics of the digit 9.
Translations
editverification of an arithmetic operation
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Further reading
edit- Casting out nines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia