Ariane 5 rocket launch explosion
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Yesterday at lunch I heard a somewhat bizarre story about how an error in a math calculation caused an industrial disaster. While there have been incidents where a computer error resulted in a disaster (the Ariane space rocket (above) being one) I haven't found any confirmation of this particular story. But while I was looking I did find a couple of curious items.
Both of these items are relatively ancient, one is from 2006 and the other is from 2015. Both contained short programs that demonstrated their problems, so I tried them out on my machine and the same problem appeared. Well, looky there, magic!
I'm only posting this as a waypoint marker. We'll see if I get any farther down this road.
My test program for 2006 problem on github.
My test program for 2015 problem on github.
Hi Chuck,
ReplyDeletePerhaps you've heard of the Gimli Glider:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Chris