Typos are for the most part harmless, but there have been instances in which 'fat finger' errors have exploded rockets and toppled businesses.
The act was meant to decide which goods entering the country were taxed and which weren't. The 1872 update accidentally listed"Fruit, plants tropical and semi-tropical," when it should have listed"fruit-plants.", but the act accidentally made all imported tropical fruit and tropical plants untaxable, as opposed to just tropical plants that bore fruit. The government ended up losing $2 million in revenue, or $40 million in today's money.
The typo did have some beneficial consequences, however: the bank planned a complete overhaul of its management system, all from one accidental payment.In September 2014, one of the biggest"fat finger" errors in history lost $617 billion in stocks on the trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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