Pentium Papers A collection of documents associated with the Pentium Division Bug. This archive is intended as a reasonably complete historical record of the events associated with the Pentium floating point division bug. All of these documents are reproduced as they originally appeared on the Net or elsewhere with full credit given to the authors and institutions involved. Some material may be copyrighted and should be treated as such. Memo from Prof. Thomas Nicely, Lynchburg College.
Calculations involving prime numbers lead to the first description of the bug.
A uuencoded, zipped version is in file p87test.txt November 7. Internet posting by Cleve Moler, the MathWorks, summarizing results to date. Examples include Nicely's prime reciprocal and Coe's ratio. Report by Steve Young on CNN's Moneyline includes interviews with Intel's Stephen Smith and Moler. News story circulated by the Associated Press.