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Re: [Rival] Microsoft Products Have Serious Bugs, Raise Liability Questions

____/ [H]omer on Sunday 30 September 2007 20:59 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
> 
>> I recall some time back that Microsoft had defined pi to be 3.14
>> exactly, or something like that.  Do you remember the details?
> 
> Actually they just rounded it up to 100,000, like they do with
> everything else.

Well, the worst type of errors are those which are hard to spot (the same goes
for viruses), so making pi 100,000 would at least raise suspicion and have the
problem corrected. I've read feedback from someone who is nervous now. S/he
backed up all the spreadsheets, but mistakes that were already done could cost
a lot of money (in some cases -- life). Confidence in Excel was lost because
when one bug is identified, there are likely to be more which are yet to be
found.

> Maybe that explains their financial balance sheet.


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