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Re:We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our... by kabdib on Thursday August 01, 2013 @11:05AM (#6140770)
I had an aunt named Nan, I wonder what her disbursement checks were like :-)
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Re:We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our... by kens on Thursday August 01, 2013 @12:15PM (#6141315)
My credit card was charged for $NaN once, due to a bug in a PitneyBowes postage kiosk. I was afraid I'd need to write them a check for 0/0 :-)

I have a photo of the receipt at http://www.righto.com/2008/05/importance-of-software-testing...

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Re:We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our... by tomasien on Thursday August 01, 2013 @11:37AM (#6141015)
I have a friend named Nan, and I posted every "NaN" error I got in my code on her Facebook wall for about a year. She hated it.
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Re:We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our... by jjindev on Thursday August 01, 2013 @11:57AM (#6141182)
plot twist, my friend's anglicized name is Nan, but in Vietnamese I think it is a number. (nth birth)
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Re:We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our... by thanhquanky on Thursday August 01, 2013 @06:39PM (#6144068)
năm is number 5 in Vietnamese, not Nan
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Re:We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our... by Oculus on Thursday August 01, 2013 @11:46AM (#6141095)
Made me choke on my water :)
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