Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.
Dave Mathis
davem at elandes.UUCP
Thu Feb 21 02:41:46 AEST 1991
henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
: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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:"Read the OSI protocol specifications? | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
:I can't even *lift* them!" | henry at zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
This is well documented in Superman 2 (or was it 3).
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