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Stump the Bankers: Question about Check Format?

I was reading a story about a dispute between famed satirist Randall Munroe and Verizon who kept billing him for 2/10ths of a cent. He finally wrote them a check for 2/10ths of a cent, but expressed it on the check as an advanced mathematical equation. (0.002 + e^i*pi + absolute value of infinity/2). The equations works out to 2/10ths of a cent. A link to an image of the check is here:

http://consumerist.com/consumer/verizonmath/solve-...

After I was done laughing, I started to wonder whether or not a check would be legal if the dollar amount was provided in the form of an equation. After all, it would have the required information including an exact value, but you'd need to find someone who could figure out the calculation first. Is there anything in the UCC that would prohibit writing out the value of the check in this manner?

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  • odam
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    not legal. it should be written clearly in whole dollars and cents

  • 1 decade ago

    Bankers are not known to have a great sense of humor -

    or tolerance - when it comes to things like this.

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