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Re: 999999999999999 - 999999999999997

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Post by _cbsz »

Maybe I'm just getting incurably academic, but I think "I found a bug!" is not nearly as interesting as "I found a bug!" and one of:

1) It affects millions of people!

2) It affects large amounts of money!

3) It is a great example of a new or rare class of bug. Here's how you can avoid introducing similar bugs into your code! Here's how we can detect these things automatically! etc.

Here, the only thing that springs to mind is IEEE floating point being used internally by Google Calculator for some reason, which I find hard to believe. Where's the insight?

Re: 999999999999999 - 999999999999997

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Post by kevindication »

_cbsz wrote: post #3

Maybe I'm just getting incurably academic, but I think "I found a bug!" is not nearly as interesting as "I found a bug!" and one of: 1) It affects millions of people! 2) It affects large amounts of money! 3) It is a great example of a new or rare class of bug. Here's how you can avoid introducing similar bugs into your code! Here's how we can detect these things automatically! etc. Here, the only thing that springs t…

I guess it's just a reminder not to trust a search engine with your fiduciary responsibilities?

Re: 999999999999999 - 999999999999997

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Post by bdr »

_cbsz wrote: post #3

Maybe I'm just getting incurably academic, but I think "I found a bug!" is not nearly as interesting as "I found a bug!" and one of: 1) It affects millions of people! 2) It affects large amounts of money! 3) It is a great example of a new or rare class of bug. Here's how you can avoid introducing similar bugs into your code! Here's how we can detect these things automatically! etc. Here, the only thing that springs t…

What about: 4) It's not obvious how this bug could happen! Let's think about it!

Re: 999999999999999 - 999999999999997

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Post by unalone »

_cbsz wrote: post #3

Maybe I'm just getting incurably academic, but I think "I found a bug!" is not nearly as interesting as "I found a bug!" and one of: 1) It affects millions of people! 2) It affects large amounts of money! 3) It is a great example of a new or rare class of bug. Here's how you can avoid introducing similar bugs into your code! Here's how we can detect these things automatically! etc. Here, the only thing that springs t…

I was curious as to what caused this. Posting to HN seemed like the fastest way to get an answer.
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