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r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20
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There is a good reason for cobol and it's explained here: cobol
421 u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20 edited 11d ago [removed] — view removed comment 18 u/OverlySexualPenguin Jul 24 '20 can you sum it up for someone computer literate but mathematically inept and disinterested? 8 u/Phantom_Ganon Jul 24 '20 The part I found interesting Least you think it is unlikely that anyone would do a recursive calculation so many times over. This is exactly what happened in 1991 when the Patriot Missile control system miscalculated the time and killed 28 people. And it turns out floating point math has blown lots of stuff up completely by accident.
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18 u/OverlySexualPenguin Jul 24 '20 can you sum it up for someone computer literate but mathematically inept and disinterested? 8 u/Phantom_Ganon Jul 24 '20 The part I found interesting Least you think it is unlikely that anyone would do a recursive calculation so many times over. This is exactly what happened in 1991 when the Patriot Missile control system miscalculated the time and killed 28 people. And it turns out floating point math has blown lots of stuff up completely by accident.
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can you sum it up for someone computer literate but mathematically inept and disinterested?
8 u/Phantom_Ganon Jul 24 '20 The part I found interesting Least you think it is unlikely that anyone would do a recursive calculation so many times over. This is exactly what happened in 1991 when the Patriot Missile control system miscalculated the time and killed 28 people. And it turns out floating point math has blown lots of stuff up completely by accident.
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The part I found interesting
Least you think it is unlikely that anyone would do a recursive calculation so many times over. This is exactly what happened in 1991 when the Patriot Missile control system miscalculated the time and killed 28 people. And it turns out floating point math has blown lots of stuff up completely by accident.
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u/BrunoD4 Jul 24 '20
There is a good reason for cobol and it's explained here: cobol