Monday, June 29, 2009

Value of ZERO

Internet banking is one of features provided by many of the banks all over the world. IT professionals are bound to use this feature as they are always binded with the desktop.

We husband and wife are both IT professionals are using this feature since we started receiving our first salary. Last month we had to pay off our monthly rental for the house we stay. It is normally transacted via internet banking.

My husband had 14300 as his account balance and our house rent is 1300. After the transaction is over the transaction history is normally printed with the amount transfered and available balance.

My husband was shocked to see the transaction history showing his 13000, for the 1300 amount being transacted. He rushed me from the kitchen to check out what was wrong with the transaction. At the first instant it seemed to be a transaction of 13000 instead of 1300 but when gone through in detail it was mentioned that the available balance is 13000 & Amount transacted is 1300.

ZERO HAS no value when it precedes any digit, but when it is following some other digit it finds its own place value.

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