Thank you, Paul! As nice of a story as it would have been to have floating point
humour in the late night show cannon, it seems that this one isn't true.
Per my original email, there was a 1996 thesis referencing a 1994 internal Intel document that Letterman did make a joke during his *monologue*, which may have been: You know what goes great with those defective Pentium chips? Defective Pentium salsa! Do any of you know someone with enough clout at Intel to find out what their archivists say? This may be an instance of the Mandela Effect <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Manifestations_and_types>. Here's another story involving floating point: I used to spend time at the University of Washington CSE Department and Microsoft. To drive from one to the other, you would drive over the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. I always referred to it as the "floating point" bridge, and nobody ever raised an eyebrow. I see a nonironic reference to the Evergreen Floating Point Bridge in a Los Angeles Times article about a traffic accident <https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-22-mn-936-story.html>. Ellen