top o' the mornin'® 8/4/2014
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top o' the mornin'® 8/4/2014
One of the major systems that I use for pulling data for reports is currently not working. Evidently someone created a document in another system and didn't use the foreign currency conversion tool correctly, resulting in an action with a dollar value of $856 quintillion dollars. The size of that number crashed the system because it exceeded the field length. It must have done more than that, however, because the error has supposedly been corrected but data still can't be loaded.
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Re: top o' the mornin'® 8/4/2014
Oh, I guess I should send that check back then.earendel wrote:One of the major systems that I use for pulling data for reports is currently not working. Evidently someone created a document in another system and didn't use the foreign currency conversion tool correctly, resulting in an action with a dollar value of $856 quintillion dollars. The size of that number crashed the system because it exceeded the field length. It must have done more than that, however, because the error has supposedly been corrected but data still can't be loaded.
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Re: top o' the mornin'® 8/4/2014
Maybe you should use the Zimbabwe currency software.


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Re: top o' the mornin'® 8/4/2014
Could you loan ear 8.56 million of those notes?SpacemanSpiff wrote:Maybe you should use the Zimbabwe currency software.
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Re: top o' the mornin'® 8/4/2014
One of the interesting things I found out when I pulled up that picture is that the Zimbabwe dollar is being used for other purposes. (FWIW, it's no longer an actual currency; the country now uses foreign currencies like USB, GBP, JPY, etc. and has for several years now)MarleysGh0st wrote:Could you loan ear 8.56 million of those notes?SpacemanSpiff wrote:Maybe you should use the Zimbabwe currency software.

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