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  • #16
    how peculiar. is that his credit card number?
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    • #17
      According to Slashdot, 2314885530818450000 (the charge) is 20 20 20 20 20 20 12 50 in hexadecimal. So some "20"s has been prepended. 20 is a space in ASCII.
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      • #18
        Too many digits for his c.c. number anyway.
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        • #19
          1250 in hex is 46.88$

          Too high for a single pack. Maybe right for a carton.
          12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
          Stadtluft Macht Frei
          Killing it is the new killing it
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          • #20
            Originally posted by KrazyHorse View Post
            1250 in hex is 46.88$

            Too high for a single pack. Maybe right for a carton.
            And nobody would mix ascii hexa values with hexa values.
            If the full number is to be taken as an ascii value, then all of it should be ascii (20 = space; 12 = DC2; 50 = P)
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            • #21
              I say reassign all the world debt to this one guy and let all those obligations die when he goes bankrupt. That way all of us (people and states) start over without anyone defaulting.
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              • #22
                That sneaky Obama

                I was wondering how he was going to pay off the deficit.
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                • #23
                  Would the bank have returned its TARP loan?
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by KrazyHorse View Post
                    I discovered the error as I was leaving the bank and looking over my bank book (yes, a printed bank book ). I returned to the teller and told her of her mistake.
                    I had a bankbook as a kid. I still have that same account although It isn't my primary account. My mom still has it somewhere in her storage shed probably. I wonder if any bank has those any longer.
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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by chequita guevara View Post
                      If the bank made that kind of error in my favor, I'd pay off the world's debt. That would probably cause hyperinflation though.
                      Yep, with enough left over for a Chinese. That's living
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                      • #26
                        That price is cheap, those things could have killed him, slowly, rotting him from the inside out.
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                        • #27
                          One teller deposited over 4 million$ in my account once. She noticed it right away. Man the look of panic in her eyes
                          What?

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View Post
                            I had it happen to me once. Was credited with about 50 bucks.

                            They were having major problems with their system.

                            I didn't find out about it until they sent me back a letter saying they had credited me 50 bucks and wanted it back. I checked it and sure enough, they had.
                            Ben, real life is not a game of Monopoly. Also, you didn't win a beauty contest.
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                            • #29
                              Of course I didn't. I finished second place.
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                              • #30
                                The only thing you'd come second place in is a loser content. The rest, you'd just lose
                                Speaking of Erith:

                                "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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