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For those who have never heard of checksumming, it's a method for verifying that your downloaded file wasn't corrupted during the transfer process.
An md5 or sha1 checksum program will read through the bits of any file and calculate a unique (for our intents and purposes) "hash" value for that file. If your downloaded file is a perfect copy of the original, then the hash value calculated from both files should be the same.
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