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by rudiv 2182 days ago
There's a cardinal pun somewhere in there but I can't think of it.
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Bird, position in the Catholic hierarchy, countability, or direction wise?

Something to do with using floats to indicate cardinality briefly plummeted, but was summarily dismissed.

Regardless, losing track of the numbers to accounts reminded me of this one place I worked where the transaction geese weren't recorded as explicit callouts on the transaction ledger, but rather had to be cross-referenced with final transaction amounts and the fee configuration for time period, but where the changing of fee configurations were not tracked with a granularity sufficient for resolving all ambiguity come audit time.

And I thought that was bad.

... but I can't place it.
This would be a top tier joke if only we could rank it.