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What are some of the famous bugs in the world of computer science?
At 3:45 p.m., Grace Murray Hopper records the first computer bug in her log book as she worked on the Harvard Mark II. The problem was traced to a moth stuck between a relay in the machine, which Hopper duly taped into the Mark II's log book with the explanation: “First actual case of bug being found.”
Reading this fine piece of history, I had this question in mind; what are some of the famous bugs, amusing or not; that the world of Computer Science has ever seen?
Tony Vincent T.Y
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Ariane 5 failure is a notoriously famous one. It took the European Space Agency 10 years and $7 billion to produce Ariane 5, a giant rocket capable of hurling a pair of three-ton satellites into orbit with each launch and intended to give Europe overwhelming supremacy in the commercial space business. The guidance system shut down 36.7 seconds after launch, when the guidance system's own computer tried to convert one piece of data -- the sideways velocity of the rocket -- from a 64-bit format to a 16-bit format. The number was too big, and an overflow error resulted. Rocket exploded in air