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PilotMan
07-23-2009, 12:30 AM
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/The-Night-Note-72109.html

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — 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 after the purchase 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 told WMUR-TV that 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 said the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.



SWEET!

Groundhog
07-23-2009, 12:33 AM
Cigarette taxes are starting to get out of hand, though I guess this is bound to cut down the number of smokers out there.

Julio Riddols
07-23-2009, 02:25 AM
"Bank of America said the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank."

Hehe.. Customer support.

Dutch
07-23-2009, 07:55 AM
That also takes Obama off the hook for paying everybody's mortgage.

flere-imsaho
07-23-2009, 09:02 AM
How the heck does an error like that happen, is what I want to know....

fantom1979
07-23-2009, 09:05 AM
if ($product == "cigerettes") {
$amountcharged = $23,148,855,308,184,500;
} else {
$amountcharged = $registertotal;
}

Dutch
07-23-2009, 10:43 AM
How the heck does an error like that happen, is what I want to know....

When the subroutine compounds the interest, it uses all these
extra decimals places that just get rounded off. So to simplify
the whole thing it just rounds it down and drops the remainder into
an account that we own...

Oh, wait. Wrong error.

lordscarlet
07-23-2009, 10:43 AM
Odd that NBC4 is just reporting this.. the story broke a week ago. It happened to 12,000 customers.

Autumn
07-23-2009, 10:46 AM
When the subroutine compounds the interest, it uses all these
extra decimals places that just get rounded off. So to simplify
the whole thing it just rounds it down and drops the remainder into
an account that we own...

Oh, wait. Wrong error.

Nice.