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And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)--in fact, Pooh himself--said something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of Very Little Brain whom he had know and loved so long.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

a word problem

miriam had $M in her checking account. She deposited a check for $N. The citibank machine said she had "N+M available now."
Let's say miriam writes two checks (C1 and C2) and makes one transfer to another account (T). Let's say fruther that C1+C2+T < M+N. Will miriam's checks bounce? If they do bounce, what does "available now" mean?

arggg...
(and apologies again to the person to whom this actually effected...)


the moral of the story is, of course, not to trust machines when they tell you things that you think don't make sense/may not actually be true...

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