Unruly Teen Charges $23 Quadrillion At Drugstore

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14 Jul 2009

Love the quote, “help desk working on it.”

http://consumerist.com/5314246/unruly-teen-charges-23-quadrillion-at-drugstore

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Billie

July 16th, 2009 at 9:02 am

And here’s how it happened, geek friends!

“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.”

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