> a story about a bug in a missile that was on the verge of delaying its deployment due to tests failing. A Patriot Missile in Saudi Arabia wasn't launched to

> a story about a bug in a missile that was on the verge of delaying its deployment due to tests failing. A Patriot Missile in Saudi Arabia wasn't launched to intercept a SCUD, which then killed 28 soldiers. The reason was poor handling of rounding errors [1] The maiden flight of the Ariane 5 rocket resulted in a RUD due to an integer overflow [2] [1] http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html [2] http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane.html http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane.html