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Originally Posted by RayTheRat
As for knowledge...well, if ya wanna know why they ran Binary Coded Decimal-based machines for banking, I can tell ya about that. (It was to avoid that extra fraction of a cent in interest created with floating point math that some programmers routed into their own accounts.)
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This was sensationalized by Richard Priors character in Superman where he did the exact same thing to get rich
