Re:Examples of Floating Point Problems
by bumby on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:11AM
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Your post reminded me of other floating point issues in rocketry:
"The internal SRI software exception was caused during execution of a data conversion from 64-bit floating point to 16-bit signed integer value. The floating point number which was converted had a value greater than what could be represented by a 16-bit signed integer." [1]
"The internal SRI software exception was caused during execution of a data conversion from 64-bit floating point to 16-bit signed integer value. The floating point number which was converted had a value greater than what could be represented by a 16-bit signed integer." [1]
[1] http://sunnyday.mit.edu/nasa-class/Ariane5-report.html