Comment by int_19h

7 years ago

If you look closely at one of the error messages, it says "too many iterations", in what looks like a random generator. I wonder if at some point it has to iterate to get a number different from another one, and it just gets an endless stream of identical values?

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zaroth  7 years ago

I can’t imagine the code is checking the returned value for uniqueness after seeing a SUCCESS code, and iterating in the hopes that becomes less true.

That would be quite something to read the comment on;

// Here we check to be sure the Earth is not flat

...

// Seeing that the Earth is indeed flat, we will iterate in this absurdity some more in the hopes it rounds out eventually