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Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money 420

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @11:13AM from the test-your-code-people dept.

mario.m7 writes "Poste Italiane, the Italian postal service, suffered yesterday from an abnormal computation in ATM and credit card operations, since the decimal comma was not taken into account. The whole sum was therefore multiplied by 100, resulting in a 115,00 Euro transaction being debited as 11.500 Euro! Thousands of accounts are deep in the red and locked (link pumped through translator), so that no more operations are possible. Poste Italiane is gradually recovering the problem, fixing the error and re-crediting the sum debited in excess. Consumer associations have offered support to clients in case this lasts longer and causes damage."

Comment Catching on... (Score 0) 1582

by thegoofeedude on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @05:48PM (#27424251) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

This is the first year that I actually remembered it was April Fool's day before I read Slashdot. The last few years were... interesting. I would relay a incredible story I read on Slashdot (I know! Can you believe it?) and it would turn out to be an April Fool's joke.

Then I found five dollars.

Comment Ruby (Score 0) 776

by thegoofeedude on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @02:02PM (#27137873) Attached to: Favorite on-screen calculator?

I've found irb (the interactive Ruby interpreter) to be very handy for quick calculations. Before that I would scheme when I needed really big numbers.

Comment Re:hmmmm (Score 0) 546

by thegoofeedude on Thursday September 13, 2007 @11:44PM (#20599029) Attached to: Kilogram Reference Losing Weight

The universe was written in Lisp, you insensitive clod!

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