Return-Path: Delivery-Date: Received: from leopard.cs.byu.edu (no rfc931) by swan.cl.cam.ac.uk with SMTP (PP-6.5) outside ac.uk; Wed, 30 Nov 1994 19:33:07 +0000 Received: by leopard.cs.byu.edu (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA16370; Wed, 30 Nov 1994 12:24:51 -0700 Sender: info-hol-request@lal.cs.byu.edu Errors-To: info-hol-request@lal.cs.byu.edu Precedence: bulk Received: from jaguar.cs.byu.edu by leopard.cs.byu.edu with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA16366; Wed, 30 Nov 1994 12:24:50 -0700 Received: from localhost by jaguar.cs.byu.edu (1.38.193.4/CS-Client) id AA27213; Wed, 30 Nov 1994 12:25:06 -0700 Message-Id: <9411301925.AA27213@jaguar.cs.byu.edu> To: info-hol@leopard.cs.byu.edu Subject: A little Pentium humor Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 12:25:05 -0700 From: Phil Windley With all the pentium traffic on the list lately, I thought this might be fun: Forwards divided by 0. ---------- Q&A: THE PENTIUM FDIV BUG Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people. Q: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant? A: A mad scientist. Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on Pentiums? A: The warning label. Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium? A: Successive approximations. Q: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply is to: 1) Divide 2) ROUND 3) RANDOM 4) On a Pentium, all of the above A: Number 4. Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586? A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got 585.999983605. Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754 and 854 for floating point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft designed using a Pentium, what is the correct pronunciation of "IEEE"? A: Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee! TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.9999973251 It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug 8.9999163362 It's Close Enough, We Say So 7.9999414610 Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes 6.9999831538 You Don't Need to Know What's Inside 5.9999835137 Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well 4.9999999021 We Fixed It, Really 3.9998245917 Division Considered Harmful - No Life-Maintenance Devices Should Be Used With This Processor 2.9991523619 Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point? 1.9999103517 We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws And the 0.9999999998th Slogan Is... The Errata Inside