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Re:The Texas electric grid failure was a warm-up by dustintrex on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:32AM (#30005880)
Perhaps we should be happy they're apparently running COBOL on a mainframe, so the price limit was not INT_MAX.
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Re:The Texas electric grid failure was a warm-up by Moru on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:52AM (#30006464)
From what I remember of COBOL I would feel much safer with that than to use INT's for money calculations...
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Re:The Texas electric grid failure was a warm-up by BenjiWiebe on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:11AM (#30010748)
What's wrong with ints for price calculations? Are you thinking floats?
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