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sireat on July 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rolling your own crypto: Everything you need to bu...

Shades of the floating point truncation bug in Vancouver Stock Exchange Index in the early 1980s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Stock_Exchange#Round...

The bug caused the index to creep up to twice the real index.

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