Some disasters caused by numerical errors
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  <li>
    Patriot Missile Failure
  </li>
  <li>
    Explosion of the Ariane 5
  </li>
  <li>
    EURO page: Conversion Arithmetics
  </li>
  <li>
    The Vancouver Stock Exchange
  </li>
  <li>
    Rounding error changes Parliament makeup
  </li>
  <li>
    The sinking of the Sleipner A offshore platform
  </li>
  <li>
    Tacoma bridge failure (wrong design)
  </li>
  <li>
    200 million dollar typing error (typing error)
  </li>
  <li>
    What&#8217;s 77.1 x 850? Don&#8217;t ask Excel 2007
  </li>
  <li>
    Collection of Software Bugs
  </li>
</ul>

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