On: Some disasters caused by numerical errors

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Nuclear weapons and forgetting parens (in Perl)

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol2_1/tpj0201-0004.html

Also, Castle Bravo was ~3x bigger than predicted because of a failure to correctly model the tritium production from lithium-7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo#Cause_of_high_yie...

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This can't be real.. 'PERL itself stood for "Precision Entry and Reentry Launchings"'

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No, it's not real: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1822593