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Debug your Code, or Else!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the trip-down-ramification-lane dept.

Trevor Lovett writes "I ran across a collection of famous software bugs that have caused large scale disasters including the explosion of the Ariane 5 rocket due to integer overflow and the misfiring of a US Patriot missile that caused 28 deaths because of accumulated floating point error. "

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  1. Remember - terrorism is just a NOP away by WillSeattle · · Score: 0, Troll

    In which case Microsmurf should be on the Most Wanted list right up there with the al-Qaeda ...

    It's only FAIR ...

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  2. I found the REAL Arianne problem! by saider · · Score: 0, Troll

    They're coding in Ada. Jeez, man use a real language like BASIC.

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  3. Re:Uranus by red_dragon · · Score: 1, Troll

    >>Wrong Starting Estimate of Uranus mass
    >But I thought Uranus is a hole...

    What comes out of it is definitely massive, though.

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  4. Re:Missing From The List by envelope · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mod parent up!! Damn funny!

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