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Pentium FDIV bug, an Uncommon card
The Pentium FDIV bug is a hardware bug affecting the floating-point unit of the early Intel Pentium processors.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 108
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 108 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Pentium FDIV bug quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pentium FDIV bug card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The bug was discovered in 1994 by Thomas R. Nicely, a professor of ______ at Lynchburg College.
Answer
mathematics. The bug was discovered in 1994 by Thomas R. Nicely, a professor of mathematics at Lynchburg College. From the Pentium FDIV bug article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Pentium FDIV bug. Pentium FDIV bug 66 · Direct current 62 · Yoshinori Ohsumi 58 · Dawn 55 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Great Attractor. Great Attractor 360,000 · Yoshinori Ohsumi 170,000 · Pentium FDIV bug 110,000 · Branches of physics 83,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Because of the bug, the processor would return incorrect binary floating point results when dividing certain pairs of high-precision numbers.
- The bug was discovered in 1994 by Thomas R. Nicely, a professor of mathematics at Lynchburg College.
- Missing values in a lookup table used by the FPU's floating-point division algorithm led to calculations acquiring small errors.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pentium FDIV bug article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Pentium FDIV bug
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pentium FDIV bug (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Konstantin Lanzet, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
