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Oh actually, let say you compute a+b with a computer. Believe it or not, you aren't 100% sure the computer is gonna gives you the right answer. There is 3 types
by quadcore 9y ago
Oh actually, let say you compute a+b with a computer. Believe it or not, you aren't 100% sure the computer is gonna gives you the right answer. There is 3 types of failures that could happen, 1) a hardware failure, 2) a software failure, 3) a bit could be flipped by a cosmic particle.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoRight, but surely every engineer working on safety-critical systems would be aware of that, right? There are mitigations available, that I guess I naïvely assumed would be in place for a system that could end up killing dozens of people if it went wrong.