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		Imperial College pandemic code: “ thousands of lines of undocumented C” (twitter.com/neil_ferguson)
		15 points by somerandomness on March 27, 2020 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

jjgreen on March 27, 2020 [–]

The usual estimate is 15 defects per thousand lines of code. I really hope that we've not destroyed the economy on a operator precedence error ...

chewz on March 27, 2020 | [–]

Won't be first time that happen.

Rogoff's Excel error destroyed entire Greek economy however IMF appologized latter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-18/faq-reinh...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jun/05/imf-admit-m...

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