Millennium Bug blamed for test errors

[Alan J. Wylie]

Just when you thought that uk.tech.y2k would never see another
on-topic posting. Follow-ups set.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/health/newsid_1541000/1541557.stm

! The Millennium Bug resulted in more than 150 pregnant women being
! given incorrect results of a Down's Syndrome test.

...

! "When it went to 2001 it (the computer) just didn't calculate the
! mother's age correctly."

!"When that information was fed into the computer the calculated risk
! was wrong."

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Alan J. Wylie http://www.glaramara.freeserve.co.uk/
"Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery