Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Wed Feb 20 10:43:00 AEST 1991


In article <265 at nazgul.UUCP> bright at nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>... There has been more than one bank fraud where
>a programmer stole money by having partial pennies credited to his personal
>account...

References?  This appears to be an urban legend.  Banks have known since
long before computers that they had to watch where the partial pennies went.
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