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There were even (bad) jokes about it newspapers at the time.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-14-ls-8729-s...

> Why didn’t Intel call the Pentium the 586? Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got 585.999983605 .”

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