submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/softwaregore@lemmy.world
 

Reminds me of the Therac-25 incident..

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[–] 27 points 2 years ago

There is a video demo of the bug later on the thread.

Some android devices have a combination .- key on the numeric input UI. This is a contentious enough design choice to have stackoverflow threads on it. That combo key style is what's used by the device and version shown on the demo. It appears that the device is reading that combo key as - and discarding (or taking absolute value), and not as a leading decimal.

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