Thought this was funny...thats a lot of coin
Wow! A Quadrillion-Dollar Credit Card Bill - News- msnbc.com
Wow! A Quadrillion-Dollar Credit Card Bill - News- msnbc.com
23 quadrillion dollar visa bill!!!!!!
- Thread starter canucksfan19
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The nerds at slashdot.org posted about this. Here's why it happened.
"Recently several Visa card holders were, um, overcharged for certain purchases, to the tune of $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on a single charge. The company says it was due to a programming error, and that the problem has been corrected. What is interesting is that the amount charged actually reveals the type of programming error that caused the problem. 23,148,855,308,184,500.00 * 100 (I'm guessing this is how the number is actually stored) is 2314885530818450000. Convert 2314885530818450000 to hexadecimal, and you end up with 20 20 20 20 20 20 12 50. Most C/C++ programmers see the error now ... hex 20 is a space. So spaces were stuffed into a field where binary zero should have been."
"Recently several Visa card holders were, um, overcharged for certain purchases, to the tune of $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on a single charge. The company says it was due to a programming error, and that the problem has been corrected. What is interesting is that the amount charged actually reveals the type of programming error that caused the problem. 23,148,855,308,184,500.00 * 100 (I'm guessing this is how the number is actually stored) is 2314885530818450000. Convert 2314885530818450000 to hexadecimal, and you end up with 20 20 20 20 20 20 12 50. Most C/C++ programmers see the error now ... hex 20 is a space. So spaces were stuffed into a field where binary zero should have been."
HarveyJ
He is - THE CACTUS!
Step 1 really hsould have been to contact the restaurant and ask them to reverse the charge that their waiter did, because it's a clear case of credit fraud 
Those card holders are really fucked up now. With that amount, one can visit the moon several times.
