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Easy, "false print" comes from the days of ticker-tape

Ticker tape would literally be a paper tape. Trade info like last trade prices/qty would be sent over a telegraph link to be printed on the paper tape.

That's where the Print comes from.

The False bit is some error along the way means the print you got should be discarded. Historical reasons were operator error, dead rats on wires, cosmic rays etc



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