Today we bring to you 10 such famous and interesting bugs from the tech world.
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Top 10 Famous and Interesting Bugs in Tech World
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The name comes from the French spelling of the mythological character Ariadne.
This $500 million rocket exploded due to a very common software bug known as Integer Overflow.
Patriot Missile Software Failure
This software bug ended up causing more human loss than can be counted in money.
So 1970 would be represented as 70 and 1999 would be represented as 99.
This method worked fine till 31 Dec, 1999 but failed to take into consideration this millennium.
The collapse never happened but it took a while for software developers to fix this bug.
The Pennsylvania PR executives account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.
Thats a cool $92 QUADRILLION (and change).
Gangnam Style broke YouTube
In 2014, YouTube was broken by a music video called Gangnam Style by Psy.
Google fixed this YouTube bug by changing the view count to a 64-bit signed integer.
Bug in Windows native calculator
This bug has not caused any loss but continues till date.
The answer this arithmatic should be 0 but the Windows calculator doesnt give 0 as an output.
See the image below to understand the bug.
The Calculators result is the same for any other number.
This bug has been discovered years earlier but continues unabated even in Windows 10.
Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
According to software engineers, the Year 2038 bug doesnt have a solution.
And if you just cringed in horror at the word dial-up, youre not alone.
Because of a miscalculation, Orbiter entered the Mars atmosphere at the wrong entry point and disintegrated shortly thereafter.
This paralysed the entire United States telephone connection for a whole day.
AT&T wound up losing $60 million in charges that daya very expensive bug.
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