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Offering ‘Another view’ (The Island/August 20, 2025) in reply to the first part of the article ‘Gaza conflict: Sarvajana Balaya’s response’ published Wednesday 13th, Stanley Weerasinghe of Pannipitiya ...

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The desert will rejoice, and flowers will bloom in the wastelands. The desert will sing and shout for joy; it will be as beautiful as the Lebanon Mountains and as fertile as the farmlands of Carmel ...

Issuers tack it on so that the whole card number will satisfy a specific mathematical test—the Luhn algorithm. Here’s how the algorithm works: Write out all but the last digit of the card number.