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Pentium FDIV bug

bug in the Intel P5 Pentium floating point unit
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Pentium FDIV bug

Summary

Pentium FDIV bug is a hardware bug[1]. It draws 2,344 Wikipedia views per month (hardware_bug category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pentium FDIV bug is credited with the discovery of Thomas Ray Nicely[3].
  • Pentium FDIV bug's instance of is recorded as hardware bug[4].
  • Pentium FDIV bug's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/064y5[5].
  • Pentium FDIV bug's described at URL is recorded as https://web.archive.org/web/20010429062848/http://support.intel.com/support/processors/pentium/fdiv/[6].
  • Pentium FDIV bug's described at URL is recorded as https://web.archive.org/web/20010504180148/http://support.intel.com/support/processors/pentium/fdiv/wp/[7].
  • Pentium FDIV bug's facet of is recorded as Pentium 1[8].
  • Pentium FDIV bug's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Pentium-flaw[9].
  • Pentium FDIV bug's has effect is recorded as product recall[10].
  • Pentium FDIV bug's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777705095[11].

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Works and Contributions

Pentium FDIV bug is credited with the discovery of Thomas Ray Nicely[3].

Why It Matters

Pentium FDIV bug draws 2,344 Wikipedia views per month (hardware_bug category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

Related Entities

Pentium 1

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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