[nukkad] Who said Zero had no value.

["Ragini Chaturvedi" <raginic@hotmail.com>]

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> A Credit Card Nightmare
>  --------------------
>  In March 1992 a man living in Newton near Boston,
>  Massachusetts received a bill for his as yet unused credit
>  card stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and threw it
>  away.
> 
>  In April he received another and threw that one away too. The
>  following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty
>  note stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't
>  send them $0.00.
> 
>  He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer
>  error and told him they'd take care of it.
> 
>  The following month he decided that it was about time that he
>  tried out the troublesome credit card figuring that if there
>  were purchases on his account it would put an end to his
>  ridiculous predicament.
> 
>  However, in the first store that he produced his credit card
>  in payment for his purchases he found that his card had been
> cancelled.
> 
>  He called the credit card company who apologized for the
>  computer error once again and said that they would take care
>  of it. The next day he got a bill for $0.00 stating that
>  payment was now overdue.
> 
>  Assuming that having spoken to the credit card company only
>  the previous day the latest bill was yet another mistake he
>  ignored it, trusting that the company would be as good as
>  their word and sort the problem out.
> 
>  The next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10
>  days to pay his account or the company would have to take
>  steps to recover the debt.
> 
>  Finally giving in he thought he would play the company at
>  their own game and mailed them a check for $0.00. The computer
>  duly processed his account and returned a statement to the
>  effect that he now owed the credit card company nothing at
>  all.
> 
>  A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he was
>  doing writing a check for $0.00. After a lengthy explanation
>  the bank replied that the $0.00 check had caused their check
>  processing software to fail.
> 
>  The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY of their
>  customers that day because the check for $0.00 was causing the
>  computer to crash.
> 
>  The following month the man received a letter from the credit
>  card company claiming that his check had bounced and that he
>  now owed them $0.00 and unless he sent a check they would be
>  taking steps to recover the debt.
> 
>  The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer
>  for her birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.
> 



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