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The 1996 Ariane 5 launch vehicle failure, in which the rocket self-destructed 37 seconds after liftoff, was fundamentally caused by an overflow when the navigation software converted a 64-bit floating-point number to a 16-bit signed integer, resulting in a loss of approximately $370 million.
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