11 digit limit
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Any ideas on what could cause such a limit?
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VARCHAR(11)
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I would have expected a limit of $21,474,836.47
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It sez so right in the article, it's a Federal Reserve rule, put in place because checks that large have to be handled manually and thus bypass normal automated security checks.
The rule's also been in place for years, the IRS was just ignoring it until this year.
Norquist saw irony in a government facing a deficit rejecting large sums of money.
"You're trying to write a $100 million check to the government and they're treating you like dirt?" he said. "These are your customers. If this was Las Vegas, they'd give you the suite and a bottle of champagne for free."
What a dickhead.
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And hookers, never forget the hookers... lots of them for US$100MM
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I've never seen a cheque guarantee card that would cover that much, so it's anyway
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ISO-8583 allows eighteen places for amounts, with the implied placement of the decimal point dependent upon the specified currency. IRS is clearly using some other standard.
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All the hookers I know have a 10 digit limit.
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clearly using some other standard
Welcome to the federal government of the United States. We make our own standards. And then don't follow them.
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I would have expected a limit of $21,474,836.47
Naw, they're probably using COBOL and a decimal data type. You kids today with your fixed-point pseudo-floats.
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This.
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This.
Wait, were you approving of my belt-onioning or just agreeing with me about COBOL? Or, preferably, both?
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@ben_lubar said:
I would have expected a limit of $21,474,836.47
Naw, they're probably using COBOL and a decimal data type. You kids today with your fixed-point pseudo-floats.
I talked to a programmer for the IRS. He said, "Naw, we don't use anything advanced like COBOL."
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BIT?
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I'm to young to not be a whippersnapper, but I can try.
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I talked to a programmer for the IRS. He said, "Naw, we don't use anything advanced like COBOL."
Yeah, that guy you were talking to?
He wasn't kidding.
If anything, he was being way, way to generous.
The IRS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – 18:27
— LastWeekTonight(I may have fucked up the timestamp. If so, watch the whole episode... and be sad)
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Naw, they're probably using COBOL and a decimal data type. You kids today with your fixed-point pseudo-floats.
I was gonna write a long missive on COBOL-68 and COBOL-74 and ancient applications, but then I realized...
The banking system has the limitation I bet.