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on Sept 6, 2010
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Patriot missile software failure, 28 soldiers died...
Moral c) The floating point numbers you use when programming computers are fundamentally very different from the numbers you'll see in math class. Any assumption that computer numbers and math numbers behave the same will eventually lead to bugs.
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