Re: somebody could explain this? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
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In response to Re: somebody could explain this?  ("Otto Hirr" <otto.hirr@olabinc.com>)
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"Otto Hirr" <otto.hirr@olabinc.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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