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From: johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.
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Date: 20 Feb 91 17:11:05 GMT
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In article <1991Feb19.234300.28830@zoo.toronto.edu> 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.

Anybody trying to do it would be a very slick person indeed.  The banks
have teams of programmers that just hang around checking the other
teams (for bugs too :-) for just this sort of thing.


John "But hey it *might* be worth a try!" Mitchell
johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU