On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Bill <bill_nos...@whoknows.net> wrote: > I won't claim to be any sort of "expert". But one memorable problem, for > me, was ultimately accounted for by the "inherent problem" of the floating > point variables x0 and xo coexisting in the same module. It's sort of funny > if you think about it just right. FWIW, my job was to fix the problem, I > didn't create it!
Today I helped one of my students debug an issue that was exacerbated by a flawed shuffle function that, while capable of returning any permutation of the input, had a bit of a tendency to leave things early if they started early - it was about 8% more likely to pick the first element than the last. Doesn't sound like much, but it increased the chances of a collision pretty significantly. Now THAT was fun to debug. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
