OCUK stole a penny of me!

Redgie said:
Queue every person using a calculator on every order to see if they too can get a free game out of OcUK.

...myself includes :p
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It was Sleeping Dogs though, already through the GPU'S I bought for myself and my dad I had recieved 4 codes. So got this one going spare again. It was the thought that counted though lol.
 
RESULT! well done op, and the top people at OCUK.

serious question, (sorry for me being thick lol, please humour me), regarding the superman thing, what actually happens with rounding errors like this? im not planning to go hacking into a bank or anything. but does this actually occur in all the accounts systems through the world?
 
kevmeister said:
RESULT! well done op, and the top people at OCUK.

serious question, (sorry for me being thick lol, please humour me), regarding the superman thing, what actually happens with rounding errors like this? im not planning to go hacking into a bank or anything. but does this actually occur in all the accounts systems through the world?
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I always assumed your account doesn't round within the first few digits, and that even though your balance may display as £1234.56 you may actually have £1234.56789123567 in there?

In other words, the rounding is only for asthetics?
 
Redgie said:
I always assumed your account doesn't round within the first few digits, and that even though your balance may display as £1234.56 you may actually have £1234.56789123567 in there?

In other words, the rounding is only for asthetics?
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but if thats my bank balance (be great if it was) and i close my account, they would pay me either £1234.56 and then keep the .00789123567

or they would pay me 1234.57 (rounded up) and then be out of pocket.

either way on a massive scale equates to a lot of money no?
 
I imagine its stipulated in the banks policy when you sign up, something like "We reserve the right to round decimal figures past 2 places down where it would be inappropriate or impossible to distribute funds alternatively". Can't see them agreeing to be out of pocket if they were rounding up.
 
Redgie said:
I imagine its stipulated in the banks policy when you sign up, something like "We reserve the right to round decimal figures past 2 places down where it would be inappropriate or impossible to distribute funds alternatively". Can't see them agreeing to be out of pocket if they were rounding up.
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I would assume they also engineer their systems so that the rounding mechanic works differently than what we understand as standard (i.e. only round up when its .7 and above etc) to minimise that error.

Considering the multitude of transactions it could be easily argued that by chance they should fall even with rounding down errors cancelling rounding up ones, though what I mentioned above secures its always in their favour.

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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