Editing Division by zero (section)

== Historical accidents ==
* On 21 September 1997, a division by zero error in the "Remote Data Base Manager" aboard [[USS Yorktown (CG-48)|USS ''Yorktown'' (CG-48)]] brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.<ref>{{citation |last=Stutz |first=Michael |url=https://www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/ |title=Sunk by Windows NT |date=1998-07-24 |work=[[Wired News]] |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990429091432/http://www.wired.com/news/technology/story/13987.html |archive-date=1999-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Boulder.pdf|title=Desperately Needed Remedies for the Undebuggability of Large Floating-Point Computations in Science and Engineering|author=William Kahan|date=14 October 2011}}</ref>
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