[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Price of Berkshire Hathaway Stock Causing Y2K Type Problem

Mitchell I. Wolfe mwolfe at vinebrook.com
Wed May 5 14:16:33 PDT 2021


There [1] was an article in the WSJ today about this.

Stock prices sometimes are stored as 32 bit words with scaling for 
fractional dollars in some computers. The precision is 1/100 of a cent. 
The maximum amount is $429,496.7295. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class A [2] 
stock has never split and closed at $424,840.00 today.

People are scrambling...

-- Mitch

Links:
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[1] 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-stock-price-is-too-much-for-computers-11620168548?st=fizvx54rvtxm8ki&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BRK-A/
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