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title: "M. L. Barton"
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canonical_name: "M. L. Barton"
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first_seen: "2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z"
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connects_to: ["Pentium FDIV bug","Intel Corporation","H. P. Sharangpani","SRT division algorithm"]
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M. L. Barton was a Staff Computational Scientist in Intel's Software Technology Lab, and co-author (with [[entity-h-p-sharangpani|H. P. Sharangpani]]) of Intel's own 1994 internal account of the Pentium floating-point division defect — the numerical-analysis half of a pairing between a chip-architecture specialist and a computational scientist.

In this vault, Sharangpani & Barton 1994 is the primary document underneath the confirmed cause of the [[claim-pentium-fdiv-bug-five-missing-srt-lookup-table-entries|Pentium FDIV bug]], including its own probability-of-failure calculations and average-user risk estimate.

## References

- [[claim-pentium-fdiv-bug-five-missing-srt-lookup-table-entries]]
- [[claim-intel-1994-white-paper-estimated-fdiv-bug-once-per-27000-years]]
- [[claim-pratts-threshold-lowering-hypothesis-absent-from-intels-fdiv-white-paper]]