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Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile (1992)
- yellowbkpk 14y agoOr just link to the HTML page this was printed from instead: http://mate.uprh.edu/~pnm/notas4061/patriot.htm http://mate.uprh.edu/~pnm/notas4061/patriot.htm
- lutorm 14y agoAnd note that the article is from 1992.
- Scramblejams 14y agoWhat kinds of structural remedies for this sort of problem exist in today's programming languages? That is, constructs (I assume as part of a type system) which make it impossible for this sort of thing to happen. (I realize in this case they were starting from assembly code -- I'm thinking about how to eliminate this kind of error in new, high level code.)