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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com)

submitted 10 hours ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 13 points 9 hours ago

Y'all better get used to doing your own math to check other people's math.

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

A worthy successor to the 65535 Excel bug.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

One of the many random numbers that live rent free in my head lol

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 8 hours ago

Best headline of the day. I like it a lot.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 9 hours ago

Oh, it's the old "Calculation is futile. You will be... approximated!"

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