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The author mentions that another blogger, Jim Randell, found the same error in 2015 when translating the tables to Python: https://enigmaticcode.wordpress.com/tag/bernoulli-numbers/

It's also debated whether these were bugs from Ada or transcription errors. But, yes, it does seem like an interesting milestone




>It's also debated whether these were bugs from Ada or transcription errors

Transcription errors would make this the first bug due to bit rot in a special sense! Still quite remarkable :)


git blame a bit hard in this case.




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