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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
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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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