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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (55326)	5/10/1998 8:22:00 AM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 186894

Mary, re: <DJ10K is BS> Guess you missed my little joke and "smiley". The DJ10K is an easy fix. O¨O

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (55326)	5/10/1998 10:39:00 PM
From: Francis Chow	Respond to of 186894

<That is a phoney story. Numeric fields exceeding the highest number provided by a programmers definition happens all the time . This rarely crashes a computer system. Most of the time, the only consequence is that the wrong number shows up. Programmers make mistakes all the time.> The headline should more accurately read: DJ10K bug could crash market . . . - because when the number rolls over it will be interpreted as a small number by many computer trading programs, which will take this to mean a massive market crash and begin to sell at any price. Just pessimistic ole me again.