If you add two zeros, to express the amount in dollars and cents, and then
convert to hex, you get 2020202020201250.
Two suggestions:
- mainframe EDIT pattern digit selectors (x'20') mis-expressed as characters
('20').
- ascii blanks (0x20) as fillers, mis-expressed as characters ("20").regards Gunnar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Binyamin Dissen" <[email protected]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:22 PM Subject: Find the computer error > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_quadrillion_dollar_debit_2 > > a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 > > Number doesn't seem to be any special hex value. > > -- > Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel > > > Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, > you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. > > I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, > especially those from irresponsible companies. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
