One number too big: how 32,767 destroyed Ariane 5
On 4 June 1996, Flight 501 tried to squeeze a 64-bit horizontal bias value (BH) into a 16-bit signed integer. Try it yourself.
BH conversion simulator
The 16-bit signed range is -32,768 to 32,767. Press convert.
float64 (sign, exponent, mantissa):
int16:
SRI 2: nominal SRI 1: nominal