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From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: software failure question
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 05:44:37 GMT
Date: 2001-04-07T05:44:37+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9Pxz6.992$ix4.198187@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> (raw)

Anyone know where this came from?
"In one infamous software error, a misplaced minus sign resulted in a
fighter jet's control system flipping the aircraft on its back whenever
it crossed the equator. "
http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999595



             reply	other threads:[~2001-04-07  5:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-07  5:44 tmoran [this message]
2001-04-07 10:22 ` software failure question chris.danx
2001-04-07 10:28   ` chris.danx
2001-04-09 15:24     ` Smark
2001-04-10 13:31       ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-10 16:01         ` Smark
2001-04-07 13:16 ` Mark Biggar
2001-04-07 13:41   ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-07 21:55   ` Ken Garlington
2001-04-09 13:54   ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-07 13:52 ` Ken Garlington
2001-04-09 18:13 ` Phaedrus
2001-04-09 20:57   ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-10  1:38     ` Phaedrus
2001-04-10 15:39     ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-11 12:12       ` Colin Paul Gloster
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