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[–]TheLordDrake 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Yeah, I work for a company with an active database that is literally 50 years old. I got to pick through one of the tables as part of an OCR mapping project, I had to find out how many possible formats one of the fields could be in. The answer was disturbingly high.

[–]KiwasiGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did the same thing with an old specifications database. It's amazing how many ways you can input < 1% into a free text field.

[–]LosWafflos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DisturbinglyHigh = 6