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- From: curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Curt Tucker)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Computer theft
- Message-ID: <6091.434.uupcb@ehbbs.gwinnett.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 14:47:00 GMT
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- Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
- Reply-To: curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Curt Tucker)
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- strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis) writes:
- SD>bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz) writes:
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- SD>>A programmer at a bank changed the interest calculations on accounts
- SD>>to round down instead of rounding to the nearest penny. All the fractions
- SD>>of pennies were put in a dummy account and then withdrawn. The bank did
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- SD>Why, this is a crucial sub-plot to Superman III!
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- I believe it was used in _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ by RAH decades
- before Superman III, and was probably an old idea even then.
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- --Curt-- curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com
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