This is slop, but perhaps the old-fashioned kind.

> An 8085 processor that could handle 1×106 rads of radiation with only a 25% reduction in performance, and 3×106 rads with a 40% drop.

Hmm, from where did they copy-paste this mangled scientific notation?

Excellent find. And yes, obviously this is slop. 106 rad is exactly nothing for nuclear usage.

	▲	ralferoo 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Bad typesetting just indicates poor editing, not slop IMHO. I guessed after about a second of thought that this actually meant 10^6. If I had to guess how this happened, somebody just wrote their prose in Word with the 6 in superscript and cut and paste it into HTML which lost the formatting. I think it's a shame if you consider the whole article (which I personally found very interesting) as slop because of 2 incorrectly formatted numbers that could easily result from a cut-and-paste error. It's clear the article hadn't been well proof read as there are a number of spelling mistakes too, but that doesn't make the content itself slop.
	▲	dpark 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, but 318 should probably suffice.