Bugs: Numbers too big, can’t cope!

[brokenhut]

Today I’m going to talk about how your computer cup can runneth over. So let us look at integer overflow.

You’ll have seen this all over the place but probably didn’t know the reason it happened. If you download large files you sometimes see it, where the file claims to have a negative size. It can also happen in the opposite direction, where

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[h2_the_foodie]

hehe...i think the millenium bug had an uncooler name but try explaining the '38 problem to the populus!