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		Qem 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Math.Pow(-1, 2) == -1 in Windows 11 Insider build Reminds me of this 2005 paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01679...

briansm 6 months ago [–]

Reminds me of the Pentium FDIV bug from 1994.... a half-billion-dollar 'ouch' for Intel were many hard lessons were learned.

Surely math libraries and optimizations have been a solved problem for the last 20+ years.

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