repost from the hyprland discord, where i first found this meme
I prefer the 32 bit signed integer underflow in my favor.
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
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Iirc there was some danish bank IT guy who stole every unit of currency smaller than 10^-4 in his banks transactions. Pretty neat until he got caught
How the fuck did he do that, and how did they find that?
It's a story I heard from my dad a few years ago, tried looking it up now, but.. well this is the best I found:
Floating point error. You owed 0.0000004 but with interest now you owe 500. It's our fault but you still have to pay.
British postal service?