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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by deogeo on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:39AM (#21701112)
Would QuickCheck know to try 999999 as input? Most of the possible inputs would give correct results, and those that don't, aren't very 'special', such as 0,1,-1,MAX_INT, and so on.
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by mrgriffin on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:36AM (#21702007)
Don't many QuickCheck-inspired libraries have special cases to ensure they generate common numbers like those? I could be misremembering, but I would have sworn I read that in the documentation of the last library I looked at (whose name escapes me).
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by deogeo on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:25AM (#21702370)
Sorry, I phrased myself poorly - in this case, the inputs that give incorrect output aren't very special, as opposed to 0,1,INT_MAX,...

Although including numbers such as 10^N - 1 isn't out of the question either.

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