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From: miller@loral.UUCP (David P. Miller)
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Subject: GAMEBRAINS trivia.
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 20:55:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 20:55:53 1986
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        5.  What was the world's costliest program error ?.
	
                 A:  A missing hyphen in the navigation 
		     program for the first fly-by of the
		     planet venus caused the destruction
		     of an $ 18,000,000 rocket.


   I believe that the mistake was not a missing hyphen, but a period which
should have been a comma.  It was in the FORTRAN statement similar to:

   DO 10 I=1.3    => should have been     DO 10 I=1,3


John. 

Question: Is John Van Zandt correct, or is GAMEBRAINS tm. right ?.


				    BIG DAVE.
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