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Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real? by mark-r on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:14AM (#22557688)
There was a related story here on HN recently. A system was assuming a 101-year-old was actually only 1 year old, presumably because of 2 digit arithmetic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22356373

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Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real? by dehrmann on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:30PM (#22558546)
They were a modulo 100 1-year-old. Modulo 100 ages: feature, not a bug.
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