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From: R!ch <rich@isltd.insignia.com>
Subject: Re: Pentium Bug (was Re: Retro-Computing! 
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On 2 Apr 1995, Jonathan Badger wrote:

> I'd hope that any airplane I'd be flying on wouldn't cut costs so much as
> to care about fuel so much that the seventh or eighth digit after the decimal
> point in the fuel supply would matter. I've yet to hear of _any_ real world
> problems caused by the Pentium bug. 

Actually, the bug was a bit more serious than that: in one (or more) calculations,
it came up with 256 intead of 0!  Hardly a 7th or 8th decimal place problem, hmm?

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