Java had a variant of that bug too: https://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2-2250738585072012e-308/ https://www.exploringbinary.com/java-han

Java had a variant of that bug too: https://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2-2250738585072012e-308/ https://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2... It sits in a loop flip-flopping between 2 representations, each time deciding the other one is better. This turned into a DOS, as some web servers used floating point when decoding time zones from the http request header. So if your server has e.g. 20 http acceptor threads, someone could send 20 requests with an insane time zone, each sending 1 thread in an infinite loop.