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vanderZwan on Jan 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: There Are Only Four Billion Floats – So Test Them ...

> However the ceil function gave the wrong answer for many numbers it was supposed to handle, including odd-ball numbers like ‘one’.

Given all the special and unique features of the number one, I sincerely cannot tell if he's being sarcastic or not.

ghayes on Jan 28, 2014 [–]

I believe he's (dramatically) saying that you'd expect someone to have checked that number manually, if not by other means.

sampo on Jan 28, 2014 | [–]

Maybe they were like "of course it works for simple cases like 1, let's just test some more difficult numbers".

ajuc on Jan 28, 2014 | | [–]

That's why unit testing is so great.

tripzilch on Feb 2, 2014 | | [–]

Because one is the unit number.

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