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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 1 month ago
[-] smitten 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah yes, the well known i5.90689059561

Edit: i5.90689059560851852932405837343720668462464580071706167251050905035703300440298377837242021827745839719063803418530941917054164942532445171041739

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Is this what over-clocking is?

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

OK, I am dumb. Can you explain what that is?

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

I'm not OP, but my guess is they're referring to the Intel math bug that some i5's had. I'm struggling to track it down, but it's basically an issue with doing long division where the floating point math would produce a very wrong result.

You can see more here at least for the bug/issue that existed in the 90's here

[-] smitten 9 points 1 month ago

I’m not actually, just that a binary integer that overflows at 60 couldn’t exist, hence the 5.907 whatever bit length

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

oh, that's actually clever. And I'm saying that as a software engineer. I missed that possibility :)

[-] smitten 4 points 1 month ago

I should have phrased it differently, like “Ah yes, the well known 5.9068905956 bit integer.” But thanks

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