Is Frobenius norm constant?

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I came across an article that makes me doubt what I have learnt so far.

For example, let us decompose matrix A into L and U (LU factorization)
$A=\left( \begin{array}{cccc} 5 & 4 & 1 & 1 \\ 4 & 5 & 1 & 1 \\ 1&1&4&2 \\ 1&1&2&4 \end{array}\right)$

The Frobenius norm should be $\lVert A-LU\rVert$. Now, the authors gave different answers when they implement this on MATLAB 2010 and 2012 and also different answers on AMD and Intel processor. Why should we have different answers for a consistent norm?