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Question: According to the Gartner Group, in early 1997 a state correctional facility accidentally released some inmates before their sentences were up because of a computer glitch. What was the problem?
- buffer overrun
- fencepost error
- Y2K problem
Answer: Y2K problem
The prison sentences in question all terminated in the twenty-first century, but the computer thought the sentences had already been completed at the beginning of the 20th century.
Source: US News & World Report, 11/17/97, p. 54
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