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Some disasters attributable to bad numerical computing
- ojbyrne 18y agoI'm sure there's more. E.g. http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatfaq1.html#FAQ1_3 http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatfaq1.html#FAQ1_3
- Anon84 18y agoOne of the mars probes crashed due to an error converting from Imperial to Metric. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/ http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
- eru 18y agoImperial should not fly to Mars. (And even Metric could be made a lot better. For example Boltzmann's constant should really be 1 instead of the value that we get because the unit of temperature has such a strange definition.)