What’s a few extra zeros?

For a moment, it may have seemed like there was a new richest person in the world. According to a Feb. 28 report in the Financial Times, Citigroup accidentally credited a customer’s account with $81 trillion last year. The financial behemoth said an employee caught the error 90 minutes after it posted and was able to fix the mistake. The miscalculation happened when an employee attempted to enter a $280 deposit into the client’s account but failed to first zero out an entry field that was pre-populated with 15 zeros.