Bugs in Passing
A few days ago I noticed that one euro became 10 times more than its usual conversion value to Russian rouble (ruble). As shown on the picture below it was 1:430.96 instead of expected 1:43.096. At first, I thought of a sudden devaluation and rushed to financial websites for confirmation but they didn’t show any signs of it. I then wanted to announce my findings and cause panic on Wall Street (computers crash there too) but other battles with bugs set this problem aside.
This evening I noticed that it was fixed (remotely, I suppose, on a distant server):
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:55 am
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