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I once read a similar apocryphal narrative. Someone, kept receiving 0$ credit card bills and the company sent repeated reminders with warnings. The person calle

I once read a similar apocryphal narrative. Someone, kept receiving 0$ credit card bills and the company sent repeated reminders with warnings. The person called, sent letters to discuss the situation but to no avail. The person finally gave up and wrote a 0$ check and they stopped sending letters. However, it led to a computer systems crash as the credit card company software encountered a "Divide by Zero" error due to eh 0$ check.

test6554 7y ago
>”However, it led to a computer systems crash.” Reminds me of Bobby Tables
- govg 7y ago
  For those out of the loop : https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
  - 8draco8 7y ago
    And the real life use http://i.imgur.com/RmfbEsZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RmfbEsZ.jpg
thomasahle 7y ago
I'm having a hard me thinking of a case where you'd want to divide by an amount of money. What am I missing?
- Ma8ee 7y ago
  For example to calculate the expected time left to pay the remaining debt if you make a monthly payment of that amount.
  - delinka 7y ago
    So dividing by number of months, which is not dividing by an amount of money.
    - vollmond 7y ago
      var balance = 0 var lastPayment = 0 var remainingPaymentsAtThisRate = balance/lastPayment // divide by zero error
      - cbzoiav 7y ago
        Surely that doesn't account for interest?
        vollmond 7y ago
        My goal with this 3-line pseudocode snippet was not to reproduce a banking loan administration system in its entirety, but just to show a place where it could make sense to divide by currency.
- red75prime 7y ago
  Or to produce a report on percent of debt that has been repaid.
bryanrasmussen 7y ago
Probably the computer that crashed was in charge of sending out letters.
jfengel 7y ago
I receive $0 bills from some sources, and while they don't keep sending them, my bank's website (CapitalOne) does keep reminding me about it as an unpaid bill. And it won't let me pay $0. I have to mark it as "I paid it myself, outside of your system". That makes it shut up.

test6554 7y ago

>”However, it led to a computer systems crash.” Reminds me of Bobby Tables

govg 7y ago
For those out of the loop : https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
- 8draco8 7y ago
  And the real life use http://i.imgur.com/RmfbEsZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RmfbEsZ.jpg

thomasahle 7y ago

I'm having a hard me thinking of a case where you'd want to divide by an amount of money. What am I missing?

Ma8ee 7y ago
For example to calculate the expected time left to pay the remaining debt if you make a monthly payment of that amount.
- delinka 7y ago
  So dividing by number of months, which is not dividing by an amount of money.
  - vollmond 7y ago
    var balance = 0 var lastPayment = 0 var remainingPaymentsAtThisRate = balance/lastPayment // divide by zero error
    - cbzoiav 7y ago
      Surely that doesn't account for interest?
      - vollmond 7y ago
        My goal with this 3-line pseudocode snippet was not to reproduce a banking loan administration system in its entirety, but just to show a place where it could make sense to divide by currency.
red75prime 7y ago
Or to produce a report on percent of debt that has been repaid.

bryanrasmussen 7y ago

Probably the computer that crashed was in charge of sending out letters.

jfengel 7y ago

I receive $0 bills from some sources, and while they don't keep sending them, my bank's website (CapitalOne) does keep reminding me about it as an unpaid bill. And it won't let me pay $0. I have to mark it as "I paid it myself, outside of your system". That makes it shut up.