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Year 2000 problem

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Millennium Bug Summary
1,007 words, approx. 3 pages
The millennium bug refers to the existence in many computer software packages of a six-digit date rather than an eight-digit date. Computers speak the language of mathematics. Every question posed to a computer program is answered either...
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Year-2000 Bug Summary
781 words, approx. 3 pages
The Year 2000 bug, also known as the Y2K or Millenium bug, was the anticipated inability of many computer programs and embedded devices to handle year-dates later than Dec. 31, 1999. Many such programs and devices were constructed to interpret dates as...
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Y2k Summary
727 words, approx. 2 pages
The expression Y2K, shorthand for the year 2000 (Y=year; 2=two; K=the symbol for 1,000), helped define the closing days of the twentieth century by spotlighting some pitfalls of the computer age. Y2K represented a major problem—some called it a...
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Year 2000 problem Information
4,009 words, approx. 13 pages
The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug or the Y2K Bug) was the result of a practice in early computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after...
 


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The Washington Post
The Year 2000 Problem
04/11/1997: 437 words, approx. 2 pages
The Post's March 27 editorial "Millennial Glitch" serves a useful purpose in that it focuses attention on a problem whose seriousness, for the most part, has been underestimated by the national media and at least a third of the companies, worldwide, that will be...
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Risk Management
Risk 2000.(Year 2000 problem for computers)
04/01/1997: 1,441 words, approx. 5 pages
The year 2000 problem for computers is the result of the limited available memory space that original computers had. New technology did not expand the available space for dates because most programmers believed their systems would not be used when the year 2000 transpired....
 


 

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