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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. 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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