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		pvg on Sept 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patriot missile software failure, 28 soldiers died... the Patriot missile kept track of its internal clock with floating point numbers It didn't, really, and the bug itself is more convoluted than the loss of precision you are describing. See the references: http://www.mc.edu/campus/users/travis/syllabi/381/patriot.ht... and http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm

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