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Pentium Floating Point Division Bug
12-06-2024, 05:58 PM
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Pentium Floating Point Division Bug
An interesting look at how this Pentium division bug came into being:
https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/113606898880486330

From Wikipedia:
One commonly-reported example is dividing 4,195,835 by 3,145,727

which resulted in an error at the 4th decimal place.
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