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Devide by zero happens to everyone eventually.

https://medium.com/@bishr_tabbaa/when-smart-ships-divide-by-...

"On 21 September 1997, the USS Yorktown halted for almost three hours during training maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia due to a divide-by-zero error in a database application that propagated throughout the ship’s control systems."

" technician tried to digitally calibrate and reset the fuel valve by entering a 0 value for one of the valve’s component properties into the SMCS Remote Database Manager (RDM)"



I remember reading about that some years ago. It involved Windows NT.

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+nt+bug+affects+ship


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