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From: Madhukar Thakur <thakur@interbase.borland.com>
Subject: pentium bug (for your amusement) (fwd)
To: kolaitis@cse.ucsc.edu, ian@cse.ucsc.edu, hermann@cse.ucsc.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 94 17:08:34 PST
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]


To determine if your Pentium processor has the highly publicised floating
point division bug, perform the following
calculation in a spreadsheet or calculator program:

  4195835 - (4195835/3145727)*3145727

on the buggy processor this results in 256
on a correct one (or a 486) this gives 0.

Or you can use this to test if your PC has "Intel Pentium Inside".

- Madhukar