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The patriot missile system tended to miss due to numerical error accumulated due to using floats to count time. http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold//disaster
by bobdobbs666 7y ago
The patriot missile system tended to miss due to numerical error accumulated due to using floats to count time.
http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold//disasters/patriot.html http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold//disasters/patriot.htm...
- chrisseaton 7y ago> due to using floats No they weren't using floats. The article you've linked to says this really clearly. > This calculation was performed using a 24 bit fixed point register
- bobdobbs666 7y agohttp://www.cs.unc.edu/~smp/COMP205/LECTURES/ERROR/lec23/node4.html http://www.cs.unc.edu/~smp/COMP205/LECTURES/ERROR/lec23/node... They meant fixed precision not fixed point math.