Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.234300.28830@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <14964@smoke.brl.mil> <101@tdatirv.UUCP> <2855@charon.cwi.nl> <14993@smoke.brl.mil> <3322@unisoft.UUCP> <1991Jan29.173341.11899@zoo.toronto.edu> <1700@bbxsda.UUCP> <2929@cirrusl.UUCP> <265@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 23:43:00 GMT

In article <265@nazgul.UUCP> bright@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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