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Re:Converting binary floating-point numbers to integers by nly on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:36AM (#28966977)
Unit test cases should be explicit. For determining if his algorithm is correct he could implement it 2 completely different ways and do bitwise fuzz testing to try and find cases where the output differs.
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Re:Converting binary floating-point numbers to integers by ghoward on Saturday October 23, 2021 @04:34PM (#28971986)
Or (if he did it with floats), tested it with all 4 billion floats. [1]

[1]: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...

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