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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·6 months agoFun fact… early Pentiums had a math bug in them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug https://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processors/pentium-fdiv-the-processor-bug-that-shook-the-world-1270773 (wow! 30 years ago!) So the joke went around saying “Why is it ‘Pentium’ instead of ‘586’?” “Because they took the first chip off the line, had it add 486+100 and got 585.982846543…”
Fun fact… early Pentiums had a math bug in them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
https://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processors/pentium-fdiv-the-processor-bug-that-shook-the-world-1270773 (wow! 30 years ago!)
So the joke went around saying “Why is it ‘Pentium’ instead of ‘586’?”
“Because they took the first chip off the line, had it add 486+100 and got 585.982846543…”