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[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Would this lead to problems if there are multiple identical and close by values? Like for example you have 100 elements each between 1 and 5

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[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To reduce the chance of errors, you can multiply all numbers by a factor of 10, 100, 1000, 10000, .... for the timeout. The higher the factor, the lower the chances of an incorrect result. And as no one asked about performance...

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