In 1919, Viggo Brun proved that the sum of the reciprocals of twin primes converges to Brun's constant. In 1994, Thomas Nicely discovered a flaw in the Intel Pentium Microprocessor while calculating Brun's constant. It cost Intel millions of dollars to replace the faulty chips! pic.twitter.com/tI9APBVtdn
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