On 15 July 2008 16:07, bruce advised: > anyone remember the intel debacle in the 1990's.. when they > ate a couple > hundred million when they had a math err in one of their coprocessors! Oh, yes! And then, back in the day, there was the DEC arithmetic processor which hung if you happened to divide the most negative possible integer by zero (instead of returning a divide-by-zero error as it did for any other dividend!). Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, C507, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter Campus, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS, LS1 3HE, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 113 812 4730 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
