Simple method to calculate checksum

string str = “123456 string 1344”;

 System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider provider = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider();

byte[] byteArray = provider.ComputeHash(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(str)); double d = BitConverter.ToDouble(byteArray, 0); int i = BitConverter.ToInt32(byteArray, 0);

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