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Why Pentium Not a 586 !!!!



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>Not all Pentiums have the floating point calculation problem.  It was the
>first series of Pentiums.  Pentium 75 and above do not have that problem.
>The error that was caused in the earlier Pentiums was out to the 11th
>decimal place or something like that.  So, the main point is later Pentiums
>do not have a floating point calculation problem.

>Jim Lovejoy
>fastgroup@xxxxxxxxxx


     Is that why Intel name their chip a Pentium ???? because when they add
     486 + 100  they get  586.00000000001 ?????   :)