| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | <otto(dot)hirr(at)olabinc(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: somebody could explain this? |
| Date: | 2005-11-05 03:48:49 |
| Message-ID: | 87u0erhhzy.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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"Otto Hirr" <otto(dot)hirr(at)olabinc(dot)com> writes:
> Trivia...
> I heard a story many years ago that landed a programmer in prison...
> He worked on the program that calculated interest that was to be
> deposited into an account. Instead of rounding or truncating the
> amount beyond what the bank wanted to use, he saved the small fractional
> dollars (really micro-pennies) into an account. Soon he had several
> hundred thousand in the account - there is a lot of multiplication...
> He got caught.
Uh yeah, that story would be the plot to Superman II (and Office Space too).
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greg
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