>Your question related to DEPOSIT rates. Here in Canada they have been low for 3+ years now. The bank that I used to use was paying .05% (no, that's not a typo) ...
It occurs to me that perhaps the programmer had put validation rules, including "rate > 0", and, perhaps, "rate must be a multiple of 0.05%". And perhaps it was too much trouble to adjust the validation rules, to account for a negative interest rate (with a small absolute value), which they might otherwise have used!
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
