Incorrect divisions on Intel Pentium processors

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts112/v4/18/c1/16/18c11687-946f-07b1-7bbe-e34e1fd40cd6/mza_11683357893503318544.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

Software Bug Stories

12 episodes

3 days ago

Welcome to the Software Bug Stories podcast. Real bug stories written by software engineers, testers and developers! Over time, software applications have increasingly become necessities in our lives, and their failure can result in catastrophic consequences for economies – even on an international level. Software failures cost the global economy millions of dollars annually. Tune in every week! Our Social Media: Twitter: @bug_stories Facebook: softwarebugstories

Technology

RSS

All content for Software Bug Stories is the property of Software Bug Stories and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Technology

https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/19848570/19848570-1660144771137-efee24d506325.jpg

Incorrect divisions on Intel Pentium processors

Software Bug Stories

2 minutes 55 seconds

2 years ago

Incorrect divisions on Intel Pentium processors

If you still have a computer with a Pentium processor at 60, 66, 75, 90, or 100 MHz, you can reproduce this popular error. This bug, also popularly known as the Pentium FDIV bug, was a hardware bug affecting the floating-point unit (FPU) of early Intel Pentium processors. Due to this bug, the processor would return incorrect binary floating-point results when dividing certain pairs of high-precision numbers.