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Old 07-15-2003, 08:37 PM   #13 (permalink)
supersix2
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Quote:
Originally posted by ratbastid
I happen to know of a multi-million dollar oil drilling project done by a VERY large international oil company that resulted in a hole being drilled 100 yards off course because one of the projects' programmers hard-coded the value of pi to '4'.

I mean.... 4! That's not even good <i>rounding</i>!
I nearly shit my pants when I read this. That is probably one of the funniest things I have ever read.
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