DATASUM

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definition The value field of the DATASUM keyword shall consist of a character string that should contain the unsigned-integer value of the 32-bit ones' complement checksum of the data records in the HDU (i.e., excluding the header records). It is a character string, so that values up to 2**32 - 1 can be written exactly.
label DATASUM
notation DATASUM
prefLabel DATASUM
scopeNote Defined in section 4.4.2.7 of the FITS Standard 4.0.

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