What it does is, every time there's a bank transaction where interest is computed, you know, thousands a day, the computer ends up with these fractions of a cent, which it usually rounds off.
10 seconds sound clip from the Office Space movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:47:24 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- That virus you're always talking about, right?
- The one that could rip off the company for a bunch of money.
- What this does is, it takes those little remainders and puts it into an account.
- Yeah, they did it in Superman III.
- Right.
- An underrated movie, actually.
- And then, there were a bunch of hackers that did it in the '70s as well. One of them got busted.
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