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pkaye on Aug 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Judge rejects $324.5M settlement over Apple, Googl...

Good thing it is no 65536 plaintiffs or the 16-bit counter will overflow!

x1798DE on Aug 8, 2014 [–]

Until someone uses a signed int16 in the payment calculation and all of a sudden everyone owes nearly twice as much as they were going to get.

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