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From: davem@elandes.UUCP (Dave Mathis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.
Message-ID: <552@elandes.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 91 15:41:46 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

: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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:"Read the OSI protocol specifications?  | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
:I can't even *lift* them!"              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry


	This is well documented in Superman 2 (or was it 3).

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