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by epicureanideal 2857 days ago
Is this the first documented instance of finding a bug in a computer program? That should be a more well known milestone in my opinion.
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The author mentions that another blogger, Jim Randell, found the same error in 2015 when translating the tables to Python: https://enigmaticcode.wordpress.com/tag/bernoulli-numbers/

It's also debated whether these were bugs from Ada or transcription errors. But, yes, it does seem like an interesting milestone

>It's also debated whether these were bugs from Ada or transcription errors

Transcription errors would make this the first bug due to bit rot in a special sense! Still quite remarkable :)

git blame a bit hard in this case.