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@Article{Coe:1995:CAP, author = "Tim Coe and Terje Mathisen and Cleve Moler and Vaughan Pratt", title = "Computational Aspects of the {Pentium} Affair", journal = j-IEEE-COMPUT-SCI-ENG, volume = "2", number = "1", pages = "18--30", month = "Spring", year = "1995", CODEN = "ISCEE4", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1109/99.372929", ISSN = "1070-9924 (print), 1558-190X (electronic)", ISSN-L = "1070-9924", bibdate = "Sat Jan 9 08:57:23 MST 1999", bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/m/moler-cleve-b.bib; http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/ieeecomputscieng.bib", URL = "http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=372929; http://www.computer.org/cse/cs1998/c1018abs.htm", abstract = "The Pentium affair has been widely publicized. It started with an obscure defect in the floating-point unit of Intel Corporation's flagship Pentium microprocessor. This is the story of how the Pentium floating-point division problem was discovered, and what you need to know about the maths and computer engineering involved before deciding whether to replace the chip, install the workaround provided here, or do nothing. The paper also discusses broader issues of computational correctness.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, affiliation = "Vitesse Semicond. Corp., Camarillo, CA, USA", classcodes = "C5130 (Microprocessor chips); C5230 (Digital arithmetic methods)", classification = "C5130 (Microprocessor chips); C5230 (Digital arithmetic methods)", corpsource = "Vitesse Semicond. Corp., Camarillo, CA, USA", fjournal = "IEEE Computational Science \& Engineering", journal-URL = "http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=99", keywords = "computational aspects; computational correctness; computer engineering; division problem; floating point arithmetic; Floating-point division problem; floating-point unit; Intel Corporation; microprocessor chips; Pentium affair; Pentium microprocessor", thesaurus = "Floating point arithmetic; Microprocessor chips", treatment = "P Practical; T Theoretical or Mathematical", }