On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:09:58 -0400, H the K
wrote:

Gene Kearns wrote:
In article ,
says...
NH man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes


MANCHESTER, N.H. ? A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at
a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23
quadrillion dollars. Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few
hours later and saw the 17-digit number ? a stunning
$23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred
forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred
eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).

Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America
trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.*

The bank corrected the error the next day.

Bank of America tells WMUR-TV only the card issuer, Visa, could answer
questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.


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He meant to pay for those smokes in quatloons...


Must be the currency of Canadian branch of the Providers?




I was a BofA customer for a while. I was with a local bank in Jax. It
was bought out by a regional Florida bank. That bank was bought out by a
national bank. BofA bought out that bank. That was enough for me...bye,
bye, BofA. Although if it mistakenly would credit my account with
$23,148,855,308,184,500...

One wonders if the programmers for B of A software understand floating
point error. One wonders what kind of processing power B of A
computers possess.

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