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Wait, but how did you know no records were missing? In other words - how did you know everything WAS printed?

btw: funny you can still buy those hard drives: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-FB540S-FIREBALL-540MB-SCSI/dp...

It's good practice in finance to have monotonically increasing sequence numbers on transactions, date/timestamps, and also running totals. That way if any of those things doesn't match, repeats, or has a gap, then you know you're missing something and can flag it.

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