A rounding error?

You can argue there’s plenty of fishy math going on at the banks, but can you imagine if you clicked on your bank account and saw this number:

-$23,148,855,308,184,500.

That’s what Josh Muszynksi of New Hampshire saw when he checked his account balance after buying a pack of cigarettes at a gas station.

He used his debit card and was charged more than 23 quadrillion dollars. For a pack of cigarettes. I mean, I know they’ve increased taxes on tobacco, but…

From AP:

Muszynski says says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.

Yes, of course, the $15 fee for going twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars in the hole.

The bank did correct the error the next day, but in typical fashion, B of A told reporters Visa would answer their questions, and Visa directed questions to Bank of America.