🚀 go-pugleaf

 The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom caught John Sabean writing:

: >1.  will it affect statistical analyses using programs like SPSS?
: >2.  I've heard that it affects popular spreadsheets like 123 and Excel, 
: >is this true?
: From what I have read, the bug effectively does the following.
: Given the calculation: A - (A/B)*B
: The result given is 256 for a very specific range of numbers for A and B.
: The error, of course, comes when you divide A by B. Which means, if your
: numbers are in the proper range, then yes it will affect 1 and it 
: will affect 2. Go to the intel newsgroup. Surpisingly enough this is
: a very popular topic over there.... :)  I don't know what range of
: A and B are affected, but you could get some numbers and find out for
: yourself.

now this is very interesting... *why* only a specific range of numbers 
and not all numbers???

: If you have the bug and call intel, depending on what you use your
: computer for, you may be able to get a replacement.

well, I haven't got a Pentium *yet* :)  We were planning to get a P90 
next week...  but I've now heard that the P100 is not affected by this.. 
is this true?

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