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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hul2000" data-source="post: 725854" data-attributes="member: 7464">Pentium FDIV bugThe Pentium FDIV bug was a bug in Intel's original Pentium floating point unit. Certain floating point division operations performed with these processors would produce incorrect results. According to Intel, there were a few missing entries in the lookup table used by the divide operation algorithm.The presence of the bug can be checked manually by performing the following calculation in nearly any application, including the Windows calculator:4195835.0/3145727.0 = 1.333 820 449 136 241 000  (Correct value)4195835.0/3145727.0 = 1.333 739 068 902 037 589  (Flawed Pentium)</blockquote>

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