Research Papers
The Pentium Division Flaw
The Pentium Division Flaw
The original Pentium™ CPU contained a flaw in the hardware floating point division unit causing it to return incorrect results in very rare instances.
For example: 5506153.0 / 294911.0
Correct: 18.67055823621364
Pentium: 18.66990719233938
Includes a detailed description of the radix 4 SRT division algorythm used by the Pentium™.
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