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- daveward, on 07/15/2009, -4/+585It's all part of a new anti-smoking campaign by the surgeon general.
- hhmmmm, on 07/15/2009, -0/+457Hopefully I'm not the only one more interested in the significance of the number than the actual story.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1133581/is-23-1 ... - carbonfilament, on 07/16/2009, -0/+272The $15 overdraft fee is where I laughed out loud.
- mrgeekguy, on 07/16/2009, -1/+266I say default on it. It would be hilarious to see what the bill collector says.
"Dude, you owe 23.......uhhhhhhhh, 23 billi.......uhhhhhhhhh......23 trill.....uhhhhh You owe a lot of money." - onederboy, on 07/16/2009, -0/+155I had a bank error in my favor for $200 once.
After some time I traded some property with a fellow (Boardwalk for Marvin Gardens and some other useless property in an act of desperation) which ultimately doomed me. - Richandler, on 07/15/2009, -1/+134What he should have done is taken the opportunity to open another credit card citing this card as reason for have a 23 quadrillion dollar limit on the new one.
- absent14, on 07/16/2009, -1/+119That "change" is 148 trillion. That's more than twice the GDP for the entire world.
- suntzusputnik, on 07/16/2009, -0/+107i wish a bank would make an error like this in my favor
- AndrewKC6, on 07/16/2009, -0/+104Wow good find!
- marciot, on 07/16/2009, -0/+104I hope it's one of those cash back rewards cards that pay you 1%-5% for purchases. He could be like, "ok, thanks for reversing the charge, but I'll keep my cash back reward for the inconvenience"
- matthewkg, on 07/16/2009, -0/+98Comment from the link:
"Add the cents to the number and you get 2314885530818450000, which in hexadecimal is 2020 2020 2020 1250.
Do you see the pattern? The first six bytes has been overwritten by spaces (hex 20, dec 32)."
Interesting. - metalgel, on 07/16/2009, -0/+91Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. *****. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
- Newsdude, on 07/16/2009, -0/+79Now tha'ts cigarette tax! BTW, what credit card has that kind of credit limit? I need one
- Bullislander05, on 07/16/2009, -0/+76<Insert timely freecreditreport.com commercial here>
Seriously, what would be his credit score? Negative? - senae, on 07/16/2009, -0/+74I was replying to the comment "Could someone explain this to the laymen? I feel teh dumb." but it was deleted. in case anyone else feel teh dumb, I'll give it a shot.
Visa probably recently future-proofed their systems, so if the value of money deflates to the point that 99 quadrillion dollars is a thing that exists, they can handle it.
The developer that did this accidentally made it so that rather then making all of the leading digits 0's they were made into spaces, which have a value (look at an ascii table to see, but as said right there, it's 20 in base 16)
Obviously a space isn't a number, so the system read it's hex value-20- which is obviously quite a bit higher then 0.
I'm not sure why a dev would make that mistake, but there you go. - macmcraeart, on 07/16/2009, -5/+75over draft fees are a ***** scam. Those things add up. US banks make about $23148855308184500 in overdraft fees a year.
- wonderchemist, on 07/16/2009, -0/+68FTA: "Muszynski, for his part, said he spent two hours on the phone with his bank, Bank of America."
Ah, good ol' BofA! - bigbenorr, on 07/16/2009, -0/+65This is not a mundane detail Michael!!!
- Iamien, on 07/16/2009, -1/+61This was in the US, we don't buy in pounds. It is US Dollars.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/16/2009, -0/+59I was listening to WAAF (Boston) and a guy called up and mentioned it.
The DJ, Mistress Carrie kinda mocked him till he gave up explaining it on-air. - felman87, on 07/16/2009, -0/+54More than twice as much.
- nmoulana, on 07/16/2009, -4/+57Joke about expensive cigarettes.
- Atario, on 07/16/2009, -0/+53When you own that much money, people assume you're a nation, or possibly a coalition of nations. Or maybe AIG.
- Anand999, on 07/16/2009, -0/+49What interests me the most about this story is that BoA is apparently willing to front you $23 quadrillion for a mere $15 overdraft fee. Looks like someone is charging a solid platinum 747 to his account and then flying it to another country.
- S7aind, on 07/16/2009, -0/+48I just think the beginning of the conversation would have been hilarious to hear.
"Yeah, I got charged $23 quadrillion for some cigarettes"
"...right..." - Ryokuchaa, on 07/16/2009, -5/+50Inflation it's a bitch.
- TobiasParker, on 07/16/2009, -1/+45The proceeds are greater than the national debt of the Solar System.
- Warshade, on 07/16/2009, -0/+44"I'm sorry sir but I can't handle transactions of such a large size, let me pass you to my manager"
- alpha88, on 07/16/2009, -1/+45For those curious, it's the next big one, 23 quadrillion.
The entire number would be pronounced:
Twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred. - CobaltEagle, on 07/16/2009, -0/+39I hear Saturn-dwellers are pretty big spenders though.
- hoodedrobin, on 07/16/2009, -5/+44American Express Black...
or as i like to call it the African-American Express - dafragsta, on 07/16/2009, -0/+37THIS IS A *****!
- mysql101, on 07/16/2009, -0/+37See, and you guys were worried about how we'd be paying for the new health care plan.
- NiftyG, on 07/16/2009, -3/+37I knew smoking was expensive, but I had no idea.
Glad I never took up that habit. - anthropodeus, on 07/16/2009, -4/+37the proceeds will pay of a little bit of the national debt.
- sayanything7, on 07/16/2009, -0/+32isn't that what they cost these days?
- dougieo, on 07/16/2009, -0/+31lets hope, for your sake, that someone was curious
- badenglishihave, on 07/16/2009, -0/+27Smart people will get the last laugh in the end.
- KibblesnBitts, on 07/16/2009, -2/+28If he pays that off - the recession will be over!
- Mankind121, on 07/16/2009, -0/+26happened to some poor girl at cvs too
http://consumerist.com/5314246/unruly-teen-charges ... - guyincognitoo, on 07/16/2009, -0/+26Usually 3%, which is only $694,465,659,000,000.00.
- sfrederiksen, on 07/16/2009, -0/+24The world's surpluses cover the world's deficits...it's net zero.
- badenglishihave, on 07/16/2009, -3/+27Is this real life?
- blofeld9999, on 07/16/2009, -0/+24Which $2 million war was there? The war against the 8 year old across the street in their tree house? What kind of war does $2 million buy you these days anyway?
- metalgel, on 07/16/2009, -1/+24smoooke. smoooke. smoooke...you smokin yet?
- funkedup, on 07/16/2009, -1/+24If you think overdraft fees are a scam then just observe the fractional reserve banking system.
- sonofabiscuit, on 07/16/2009, -0/+22Sorry, meant $2 trillion. Please don't hurt me!
/hides - sndream, on 07/16/2009, -0/+21Boy, Visa will have a huge amount of bad and not to mention imaginary debt to write down.
- archiethefifth, on 07/16/2009, -4/+25Obama's
- Layne, on 07/16/2009, -0/+21You also have to figure that the bureaucratic overhead will eat up the vast majority of that money.
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