B is for Billion, M is for Million

[kyouryuu]

A common trope of sci-fi is that computers would one day destroy the world. The conventional wisdom dealt with computers gaining access to nuclear weapons, as with WOPR or Colossus or Skynet, and causing the destruction of society as we know it

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[korgmeister]

Yes, but also what idiot designs a piece of software such that a simple typo can have such catasrophic results?