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by DamnInteresting 40 days ago
One recalls the Pentium FDIV bug, where an estimated 1 in 9 billion floating point divides with random parameters would produce inaccurate results[1]. A small subset of Pentium users would ever encounter the problem, yet it was considered a major controversy, and Intel ultimately replaced $475 million worth of CPUs (in 1994 dollars)[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/its-been-30-...