Talk:Sumlock ANITA calculator

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I realise that this is trivia, however as I suspect that that I am one of only a few editors to have used such a device in earnest - to calculate insurance premiums - I thought I'd mention a quirk that its programming allowed/facilitated. If one divided any number by zero the display went to 9999999999 and then decremented by 1 every 0.1 seconds. This was very precise and we used/abused it to monitor colleagues' rest-room breaks and time spent on personal phone calls. It was never clear if this feature was designed in or happened by chance.

Of course the only way to stop it was to switch it off - an early introduction to program loops and re-booting. Saga City (talk) 20:01, 17 April 2008 (UTC)