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- [Falsehoods about Prices](https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585) - Covers currencies, amounts and localization.
- [Falsehoods about IBANs](https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/blob/master/docs/FALSEHOODS.md) - International Bank Account Numbers are not international.
- [Falsehoods about Economics](http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/09/22/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-economics/) - Economics are not simple or rational.
- [Decimal Point Error in Etsy's Accounting System](https://old.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/hz4877/if_you_are_an_etsy_seller_do_not_purchase_postage/) - The importance of types in accounting software: missing the decimal point ends up with 100x over-charges.
- [Decimal Point Error in Etsy's Accounting System](https://web.archive.org/web/20230615151102/https://old.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/hz4877/if_you_are_an_etsy_seller_do_not_purchase_postage/) - The importance of types in accounting software: missing the decimal point ends up with 100x over-charges.
- [Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money](https://web.archive.org/web/20250326135824/http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/02/25k/) - Same error as above at Google Ads, or the danger of separating your pennies from your dollars, where $250 internal coupons turned into $25,000. My advice: [get rid of integers and floats for monetary values. Use decimals. Or fallback to strings and parse them, don't validate.](https://twitter.com/kdeldycke/status/1599113889093890049)
- [Characters `<` and `>` in company names lead to XSS attacks](https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/cross-site-scripting-xss-software-attack/3355) - Because [UK allows companies to be registered with special characters](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/17/schedule/1/made), a hacker leveraged them to register `\"><SCRIPT SRC=MJT.XSS.HT></SCRIPT> LTD`, but also `; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD`, `BETTS &AMP; TWINE LTD` and `SAFDASD & SFSAF \' SFDAASF\" LTD`.
- [Minutiae of company names](https://twitter.com/nthnmsmth/status/1587880523124408322) - How the rules of the State of Delaware and the IRS does not intersects.