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Topic: "Pack of Marlboro Menthols please". "That will be 23 quadrillion dollars." (Read 727 times)
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J’raxis 270145
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Recently several Visa card holders were, um, overcharged for certain purchases, to the tune of $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on a single charge. The company says it was due to a programming error, and that the problem has been corrected. What is interesting is that the amount charged actually reveals the type of programming error that caused the problem. 23,148,855,308,184,500.00 * 100 (I'm guessing this is how the number is actually stored) is 2314885530818450000. Convert 2314885530818450000 to hexadecimal, and you end up with 20 20 20 20 20 20 12 50. Most C/C++ programmers see the error now ... hex 20 is a space. So spaces were stuffed into a field where binary zero should have been. Source. |
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Susquehanna
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He's just ahead of the game. Soon the taxes on tobacco will probably be that high.
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