when directly sum up every individual element in a string to int, what is the value represent?

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like when when s = "wendy", I got 551. What's that?

for(size_t i = 0; i < s.length(); i++)
{
    sum += s.at(i);
}

What you need is a good [book](http://stackoverflow.com/q/388242/1168156). — LihO, May 08 '13 at 22:06
I'm guessing it's a poor-quality additive hash algorithm. Is this a trick question? — Blastfurnace, May 08 '13 at 22:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '13 at 22:04

It's the sum of the ascii values in the string. Each character corresponds to a numerical value usually between 32 and 127 (ignoring wide characters and Unicode stuff for now since that's complicated).

If you want more information, try looking up "Ascii".

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '13 at 22:09

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From an ascii table:

'w' = 119
'e' = 101
'n' = 110
'd' = 100
'y' = 121
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551

answered May 08 '13 at 22:09

typ1232

5,535
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when directly sum up every individual element in a string to int, what is the value represent?

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