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The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed!

The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed!

In a recent study, it was discovered that a code snippet for formatting byte counts in a human-readable way, originally posted on Stack Overflow almost a decade ago, became the most copied snippet on the platform. The snippet, though widely used, had a subtle bug causing incorrect results in certain cases, highlighting the importance of rigorous testing and the complexities of floating-point arithmetic in programming.


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