ESA's Schiaparelli Mars probe crashed because of integer overflow

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 26 November 2016 at 05:50:19 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> It reminds me of college, where we were told that if we worked 
> a problem and came up with unreasonable answers, such as 
> negative energy, we were expected to note:
>
>    "I know this answer is unreasonable, but I cannot find the 
> mistake."
>
> and the worst you'd get is a 0. Unreasonable answers, and no 
> note, meant you'd get a negative score!

You got a great teacher right there !