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From: gwh@typhoon.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,rec.humor
Subject: A funny posting...
Summary: Math Error or Joke?
Keywords: four
Message-ID: <1989Dec11.235910.14984@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 89 23:59:10 GMT
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Reply-To: gwh@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
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This appeared on one of our local newsgroups here at berkeley [we have
an all-apollo cluster]:

>From: [deleted]@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU
>Subject: The Math functions Library
>Message-ID: <11876@shuriken.berkeley.edu>
>Date: 7 Dec 89 12:35:30 GMT
>Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
>Distribution: ucb
>Lines: 9
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>	A bug has been discovered in the Apollo math functions.  More a
>	accurately, in double precision mode there is some inaccuracy regarding
>	the number four.
>		This is being patched by redefining four, so please add
>	#include <four.h>
>		in all appropriate code.  It will be fixed in 10.2

We believe it to have been faked... even so, I think you all may enjoy it.

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