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The answer lies in the weirdness of floating-point numbers and the computer's perception of a number line.
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In 1994, Intel recalled - to the tune of $475 million - an early model of their Pentium processor after they discovered it was making arithmetic errors. Arithmetic mistakes - like the one Intel’s Pentium processors were making - are often rooted in computer’s unusual version of the real number line.
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