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- From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Computer theft
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 23:37:56 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz) writes:
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- >I heard this story many years ago and was wondering if it really happened.
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- >A programmer at a bank changed the interest calculations on accounts
- >to round down instead of rounding to the nearest penny. All the fractions
- >of pennies were put in a dummy account and then withdrawn. The bank did
- >not notice for a while because the amount of interest paid was still correct
- >and the books balanced.
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- Why, this is a crucial sub-plot to Superman III!
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- Stratocaster
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