This is why our students should understand all of the math that they're using computers to calculate - because even computers make mistakes!
Microsoft Excel revealed a bug in their 2007 software. For example, if you try multiplying 77.1 by 850, instead of revealing 65,535, the program spits out 100,000. Of course this isn't as big a calculation error as, say, the Bush administration's projections for the most recent NAEP Math scores, but it's still significant.
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