Template:Did you know nominations/Pentium FDIV bug
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The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 20:59, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
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Pentium FDIV bug
- ... that early versions of the Intel Pentium CPU had a hardware bug in their floating-point unit that led to incorrect results when dividing certain numbers? Source: http://www-math.mit.edu/~edelman/homepage/papers/pentiumbug.pdf
- ALT1:... that a hardware bug in early versions of the Intel Pentium CPU led to the affected processors being recalled, in what was the first full recall of a computer chip? Source: Carlton, Jim; Yoder, Stephen K. (21 December 1994). "Computers: Humble Pie: Intel to Replace its Pentium Chips". Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition ed., Dec 21 1994). p. B1.
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Improved to Good Article status by Firefly (talk). Self-nominated at 17:20, 3 May 2021 (UTC).
New enough GA. This is your first DYK nom; no QPQ needed. Both hooks are interesting. I have access to the offline WSJ source which states "the first consumer recall of a computer microprocessor", so both check out to source, and both are included with their citations. This one is good to go. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:06, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
