One of the most famous expressions used in the average
kindergarten classroom made a bit more confusing by
Intel. Seeing as computers never make mathmatical errors, I guess
1+1=1.99999999486 after all.
In the early days of the
8086 architecture, in order to make certain routines as efficient as possible,
Intel programmed a pretty good
Floating Point Number (FPN) addition routine. Unfortunately, they didn't test the chip out properly and found that the processor understood FPN 1 plus FPN 1 equals FPN 1.9999999486. This ovbiously sucked, and since the 8086,
Intel has corrected the error and made it more efficient.