For those young'uns who didn't suffer thru this, it turned into a really big deal. There were some circumstances where a floating point division result would be

For those young'uns who didn't suffer thru this, it turned into a really big deal. There were some circumstances where a floating point division result would be incorrect after about 4 decimal digits. The linked post is the original public report of the bug. Wikipedia [1] has a summary. Intel wound up offering to exchange faulty chips, and took a $475 million charge against earnings. But IMO the best part of the fiasco was all the jokes. Hundreds of jokes. Probably thousands of jokes. E.g.[2]. One of my favorite jokes doesn't appear on that list (but does appear on many others): We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug [2] http://www.khd-research.net/Tech/Computer/Misc/PBug_Jokes.txt http://www.khd-research.net/Tech/Computer/Misc/PBug_Jokes.tx...