[fstokesman]

Heard about a great floating point implementation bug just today. When nintendo released Super Mario 64 for the Wii virtual console, they essentially just made their own emulator that plays a single ROM. The emulator is pretty accurate, though they made a mistake when implementing floating point operation rounding: All operations end up rounding upwards to the next floating point number (as opposed to alternating, depending on the result). A consequence of this was that some of the moving platforms in the game that had a periodic up/down pattern would slowly (over the course of literal days) creep upwards. Ended up being exploited in a speedrun category where the player attempts to press the A button as little as possible.

[sireat]

Shades of the floating point truncation bug in Vancouver Stock Exchange Index in the early 1980s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Stock_Exchange#Round...

The bug caused the index to creep up to twice the real index.