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TIL the original Pentium had a hardware design fault that made it unable to accurately compute certain large floating point divisions, such as dividing 4,195,835 by 3,145,727. This resulted in a $... (en.wikipedia.org)

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Original Title: TIL the original Pentium had a hardware design fault that made it unable to accurately compute certain large floating point divisions, such as dividing 4,195,835 by 3,145,727. This resulted in a $475 million loss to Intel after its recall.

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