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hardware-defect

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• The Pentium FDIV bug was five missing entries in the SRT algorithm's quotient-digit lookup table; Intel attributed it to a table-generation script error, not a lithography defect
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · pentium-fdiv-bug, srt-division, floating-point, hardware-defect, script-error
• A twin-prime number theorist's routine sanity check exposed a $475M hardware rounding defect in the Pentium
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · numerical-analysis, floating-point, rounding-error, pentium-fdiv-bug, thomas-nicely