division by zero causes war

David G Hough at validgh validgh
Fri Jul 24 13:54:42 PDT 1998


http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm

In this case, the war is between various factions within the Navy offering
differing accounts of events on the USS Yorktown.   Each faction has its own
technical and political agenda, it appears, so the truth may never be certain,
but it may be that a division by zero disabled the ship for some period of
time.




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