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It's a story I heard from my dad a few years ago, tried looking it up now, but.. well this is the best I found:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-salami-technique/
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/14925/has-a-programmer-ever-embezzled-money-by-shaving-fractions-of-a-cent-from-many-b