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Division by zero
Historical accidents
Division by zero
Historical accidents
On September 21,
1997
, a division by zero error in the “Remote Data Base Manager” aboard
USS Yorktown (CG-48)
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USS ''Yorktown'' (CG-48)
brought down all the machines on the
network
, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.
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2)
Division by zero
1)
https://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/07/13987
, Sunk by Windows NT, Date 1998-07-24,
Wired News
2)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Boulder.pdf
, Desperately Needed Remedies for the Undebuggability of Large Floating-Point Computations in Science and Engineering, William Kahan, 14 October 2011