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| | Y2K - Will the Millenium Bug Byte You? |
 | | You may have heard of the Year 2000 problem, also known as the "Y2K" problem or the "Millennium Bug," and how it may affect corporations, governments and institutions, but Y2K is going to hit close to home, too. |
 | | While some people believe the next millennium doesn't begin until 2001, there are those, including at least one internationally renowned scientist who reported his findings at a recent American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, that it in fact begins in 2000. |
 | | The two bytes of data representing the century (19), may not seem like a huge saving, but when repeated over millions of lines of programming code or hundreds of thousands of individual records, it soon added up. |
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