division_by_zero
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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) | USS ''Yorktown'' (CG-48) brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.1)2)
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
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