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The US government needs to get into the skateboard parts business! Two of those puppies and we’re in the black!
Check that… about two thousand. Comma recognition FAIL.
The US needs to be a great economic superpower!
The idea is right…. S’pose China needs more skateboards?
everybody needs more skateboards!
Don’t buy those Chinese skateboards with lead paint! Throw those over the Great Wall!
Or better yet, grind them over the great wall… TO THE EXTREEME!
Not a grind though.
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!
that’s awesome
nice phone
That is a great extreme!
Okay, so the total is Eight billion, eighty million, seven hundred ninety-four thousand, two hundred thirty-six dollars and twenty-seven cents. Correct?
And you better have those 27 cents. They ain’t giving you anything.
well, it is over 9,000……. isn’t it?!
Well over 9,000. So far over 9,000 that it had to go over 9,000 very many times. In fact, at this point 9,000 seems like a small number.
it is nearly 9000 times over 9000
~smashes scanner~
Actually, it’s nearly 9000000 times over 9000.
Make that 900000.
Quite a blue light special.
Seems cheap enough
Anybody else impressed that it didn’t overflow? 32-bit integers for my teller machines, thanks!
Integer is only full numbers. But prices have digits AFTER the comma, so this has to be at least a double-precision float.
It is probably stored as an integer amount in cents, but just displayed as the amount in dollars.
Ew, never use floats for currency values. Always used fixed-point. It’s the only option that makes sense.
A 16-bit integer can store 2^16 (65,536) unique values.
A 32-bit integer can store 2^32 (4,294,967,295) unique values.
A 64-bit integer can store 2^64 (18,446,744,100,000,000,000) unique values.
However, most 64-bit microprocessors on the market today have an artificial limit on the amount of memory they can address, considerably lower than what a 64-bit integer is actually capable of.
For example, the extension to the 32-bit PC architecture known as AMD64, EM64T, or simply “x64″ currently only allows 2^52 bits of address space (that’s “only” 4,503,599,630,000,000 bits of memory space). What’s more, even high end of the next-gen PCs will only have a maximum of 34 billion bits (32GB) of RAM on board. Why? Because nobody makes DIMM modals larger than 4GB yet, and even with Intel’s upcoming “Waimea Bay” high-end chipset you can only have a maximum of 8 DIMM slots per machine. 4GBx8 = 32 GB = 34,359,738,368 bytes. Still, that’s 30,064,771,073 bits more than what a 32-bit machine could have in it’s memory.
So, as you can see, that cash register clearly must have been running a 64-bit processor. Either that, or this was photoshopped.
Oops, I just realized that they DO make DIMMs larger than 4GB now. My bad. They even make 32 GB DIMMS…. but they’re really expensive. So, in theory, you could build a cash register that has 8x32GB DIMMs in it. That’s 274,877,906,944 bits!
(Intel hasn’t released Waimea Bay yet, or even published it’s technical specifications, but we do know it will support up to 4-channels of DDR3. I’m assuming that the channels will be 2-way interleaved as it has been on previous high-end chipsets, but nobody knows if that’s true or not yet.)
Your logic is flawed. Addressable space and representable numbers have little to do with each other. You can have a 32bit machine represent a much larger value than 2^32. For example, an array of bits whose size is X can represent 2^X for some pretty large values of X.
my brain is full of f**k
exactly, it didnt address that much memory, it just addressed an uninitialized portion of memory that had junk in it, and most beginning C students can tell you that if you address an uninitialized portion of memory you get ~8billion (although its usually negative)
Oh, ho, ho! If it had been negative, this guy would have been set for life, even after the government takes a great, wet bite out of his behind.
I’ll just put that on my government issued credit card.
Take a check?
It looks like someone keyed in the barcode number and hit cash instead of enter.
It may not have been the cashier — it may have been the person entering the items and prices into the store database in the first place.
I remember scanning a toddler sized shirt one time (bout 15 years ago) and having it come up at $828.99.
seems someone fubard the price when they coded it or put in the bulk price for corporate instead.
was the ODDEST scanning error I ever saw when I was a cashier.
No, it’s probably their credit card number keyed in wrong. I’ve seen this happen before and it’s always in the billions.
I doubt it’s a credit card number – very few CC providers use only 12 digits, and none have “8080″ as their prefix. It also fails the CC checksum test. However, a UPC-A is 12 digits, and it passes the checksum test, so it is most likely a UPC code.
“hey kid- I need to borrow your… HOVERBOARD.”
Nice reference~
Though a hoverboard wouldn’t need bearings
And we’ll borrow money from other countries to pay it off.
So the kid can go skate in a parking lot and get hit by a car, while the skateboard goes under the wheels.
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I don’t think your link worked this time.
Is that Jeremy from Pure Pwnage in the reflection?
It looks like him. In a fair exchange, to pay the bill he simply left a lock of his hair at the checkout counter.
Some be some sweet bearings.
It’s definitely over 9000
give it about 50 more years and that’s how much it’ll be
Typical overpriced skate shop pricing.
hmmm….Must be swiss super epic fantabulos ceramic bearings…
What’s the ABEC on them, you think?
Lindsay Lohan probably puked on it.
Someone doesn’t clip coupons. I got the same one for over 9000.
and now you have gone to far, I have to pay an extra 27 CENTS on top of all that! That does it!
don’t forget the 27 cents!
It’s not a credit card – they have 16 digits. It’s not a UPC code either – no records on that product online. Just a fubar somewhere, or a shops internal code for the product.
It’s the right length for a UPC and has the correct checksum… it’s more likely that it is a UPC and it’s just not in whatever database you looked it up in.
Don’t you mean foo bar?
Retailers do this all the time if it’s a product that’s not supposed to be sold — either it’s a new product being scanned before the release date or it’s a known defective product that needs to be sent back to the manufacturer. I work at an electronics store and sometimes products will ring up at $10,000 or something ridiculous because it’s a product that isn’t supposed to be sold.
Well then whoever entered in this one was really bored…
Ya know, with Bernanke’s monetary policies, we’re not too far off from seeing $8 billion skateboards for real.
Ha! I picked one up during a sale last week for only 4 billion!
“Oh god!
Now, I must hold the world ransom for 8 billion dollars!”
well it IS an obama economy after all….bet that item was made in china
Nah, if it was made in china it would be by cheap labourors. It would have been made in britain cos it seems everyones always on strike over here.
The US Army: Finding new and exciting ways to spend our yearly $548.9 billion dollar budget every year. Now with dangerously expensive skateboard bearings! The terrorists don’t stand a chance… TO THE EXTREME!
nice evo thar
I suspect this is one of those rare situations where the item is in the system but without a price, and the cashier is then prompted to enter the price manually. Cashier then scanned the barcode of the item again. Even if we assume that this is a UPC, that’s probably the only way you could get the number to display as a price and still have non-generic product description.
Either that or someone just entered an insanely large quantity as a joke.
Or maybe the photo is just– nah, never mind.
Price in Zimbabwe.
This looks fake because there looks like a normal basement/room in the background.
Your basement has commercial clothing racks in it then?
IDK about you dude but I don’t think I’d spend about $10,000 or whatever that cash register costs just to get a picture up on failblog.
Just sayin.
$64 Average price for skateboard bearings.
This divided by the price, amounts up to how many sets of bearings he bought.
126262409 sets of bearings, he could possibly be buying.
Hypothesis to why he is buying this amount: Clearly he’s out to go construct a skateboard with many wheels, creating this centipede inspired like creation & . . ah what’s the point? The cashier just did this for a practical joke.
Reminds me of the time I was told to give a customer over 9 million dollars in change. Turns out I scanned the barcode into the “amount paid” box
Cash register for a hospital (adds 9 zeros to any price) mistakenly ends up in a skateboard shop.
Ooh, £3.73 off the label price! What a bargain! I’ll take two!
Looks like Infermon is at it again.
thats a relief… … i thought for a second id have to pay full price!
What’s wrong with it? I bought two of them last week for that same price. Altho I got a discount; they let me pay a round figure: 16 billion. Bargain!
those must of been some damn good bearing
I’d like to pay that in silver coins, please!
So this is where congress shops
whoever can afford this, should help pay the external debt of the usa.
I’ve had our computer system at work do this before — it accidentally entered the item’s SKU number instead of the price, so it rang up as like $240 million for a pair of shorts.