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dustintrex
on Jan 20, 2022
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The Texas electric grid failure was a warm-up
Perhaps we should be happy they're apparently running COBOL on a mainframe, so the price limit was not INT_MAX.
Moru
on Jan 20, 2022
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From what I remember of COBOL I would feel much safer with that than to use INT's for money calculations...
BenjiWiebe
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What's wrong with ints for price calculations? Are you thinking floats?
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