Give me your address and sort code, and we have a deal.

I just use whatever my current balance is and let them sort it out.

Jeez, guys... He's asking for help here! Be nice!

The routing numbers at the bottom of a check actually contain a host of useful and important information.

The first set of numbers is mostly bank information... They will be bracketed between two non-alphanumeric symbols, and even those symbols tell us important information about the account the check is drawn on.

If the symbols are in a dot-bar-dot configuration, which looks a little like -|- then we know it's a "major" business account. If they are bar-dot-dot, or |-- then it's a "preferred" account member - usually someone with a large account balance or line of credit, and scads of "custom" services and considerations, like lower fees, higher interest rates paid on available balances, and automatic overdraft protection, usually up to the mid six figures. If the symbols are in a dot-colon configuration, or -: it's what banks politely refer to as a "basic" or "public" account... This is an account holder with questionable balances, and limited lines of credit. Merchants know that any check with a -: symbol set should be checked for available funds and proper ID.

The nine numbers (ignoring alpha characters or symbols) themselves tell us a lot, too... There is a complex algorythem used to generate these numbers that, with the aid of a computer program, identify the bank, the account "level" (to a more refined degree than the bracketing symbols), the ID "trust" status of the account holder, or even that that's not your actual bank routing number.

The second set, in your example, are the account number. Of course, since the adoption of the USA Patriot Act, these numbers aren't merely randomly generated, either. Each digit or two digit set will identify the account holder in terms of race, gender, age, income, citizenship status, known "flags", geographic residential locality. These advances in check info have decreased bad check traffic by approximately 72% since 2002, according to the Document Security Office of the Federal Reserve.

The last set, in your example, is the check number... Just to make sure it matches the info printed at the top of the check.

Thank you! It's nice to have some time to come back... I think the life of a serious academic is somehow hollow if they're not able to seek out and refine knowledge, and help others.

What makes that peculiar or "interesting"? We here at gullible.info like to think of ourselves as a repository of all kinds of information.

I'm too paranoid.. I just spent ten minutes trying to figure out if there is a hidden meaning in the sequence of numbers... Maybe I watched "A Beautiful Mind" once too many times as a child.

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Back before gullible went online, we were a lot more involved with cheaking than we are now. Ah, those were the days.

You miss them because you never cheak to see if they're on.

Well cheaked.