Storing floating point coordinates for example is what causes the "farlands" world generation behavior in Minecraft, for example.
https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha...
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=patriot%20missile (HN threads)