What Did Intel Discover When It Ran Tests on the Pentium

question 66

Multiple Choice

What did Intel discover when it ran tests on the Pentium chip?

• A) That it would make an error once every 27,000 years
• B) That the chance of an error was one in 9 billion
• C) That the floating point error problem was not one that required attention
• D) a and b only
• E) a, b and c

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