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 such as the “integer” wraparound 255+1=0 occurring in bytes that led to the //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi|Nuclear Gandhi]]// programming bug. such as the “integer” wraparound 255+1=0 occurring in bytes that led to the //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi|Nuclear Gandhi]]// programming bug.
  
-Similarly, deviations between exact and approximate continuous data underlie infamous failures such as the Ariane 501 flight V88 or the Sleipner-A oil platform.+Similarly, deviations between exact and approximate continuous data underlie infamous failures such as the  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88|Ariane 501 flight V88]] or the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner_A|Sleipner-A oil platform]].
  
 Nowadays high-level programming languages (such as Java or Python) provide a user data type (called for example ''BigInt'' or ''mpz_t'') that fully agrees with mathematical integers, simulated in software using a variable number of hardware bytes. Nowadays high-level programming languages (such as Java or Python) provide a user data type (called for example ''BigInt'' or ''mpz_t'') that fully agrees with mathematical integers, simulated in software using a variable number of hardware bytes.
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 see also the [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04005|preprint arXiv:2002.04005]]. see also the [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04005|preprint arXiv:2002.04005]].
 +  *  [[https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/programmes/pg/phdcs/directory/|Ivan Koswara]] and [[http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Gleb.POGUDIN/|Gleb Pogudin]] and [[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Svetlana-Selivanova|Svetlana Selivanova]] have [[http://cs4contidat.eu/yjcom101727.pdf|related the bit-complexity intrinsic to approximate solutions of linear partial differential equations]] to discrete complexity classes #P and PSPACE.
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 +  * [[http://informatik.uni-trier.de/~brausse/personal/index.xhtml|Franz Brauße]] and [[https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/pieter.collins|Pieter Collins]] envision a Computer <del>Algebra</del>//Analysis// System
  
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