RE: [PHP] Math Weirdness
| From: | Ford, Mike | Date: | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Math Weirdness | ||
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On 15 July 2008 16:07, bruce advised:
> anyone remember the intel debacle in the 1990's.. when they
> ate a couple
> hundred million when they had a math err in one of their coprocessors!
Oh, yes!
And then, back in the day, there was the DEC arithmetic processor which
hung if you happened to divide the most negative possible integer by
zero (instead of returning a divide-by-zero error as it did for any
other dividend!).
Cheers!
Mike
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