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A QA engineer walks into a bar

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Ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall,
Ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine bottles of beer,
You take one down, pass it around,
Ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-eight bottles of beer on the wall.
- Unfortunately the bar was built on long int so it overflowed 23 times and landed on about 1.2 billion.
  One billion, two-hundred fifteen million, seven-hundred fifty-two thousand, two-hundred-something bottles of beer on the wall, one billion, two-hundred fifteen million, seven-hundred fifty-two thousand, two-hundred-something bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around...
  One less bottle of beer on the wall :)
  
  I wonder what would happen if it was a singed long, and it landed somewhere in the negatives after overflowing multiple times?
  Negative forty-eight thousand, six hundred thirty-three bottles of beer on the wall,
  Negative forty-eight thousand, six hundred thirty-three bottles of beer
  You take one down, pass it around,
  Negative forty-eight thousand, six hundred thirty-four bottles of beer on the wall
  
  Well, silly me, I should have specified that I did my calculation with signed long, though it shouldn't affect the outcome much given my rounding at the hundreds.
  I like the idea of beer debt to the wall, though!
  
  I once wrote a Python script that implemented this song, I could probably abuse that old program to make this nonsense happen.

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