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  2. Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

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    The term magic number or magic constant refers to the anti-pattern of using numbers directly in source code. This has been referred to as breaking one of the oldest rules of programming, dating back to the COBOL, FORTRAN and PL/1 manuals of the 1960s. [ 1] The use of unnamed magic numbers in code obscures the developers' intent in choosing that ...

  3. Kahan summation algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Suppose we are using six-digit decimal floating-point arithmetic, sum has attained the value 10000.0, and the next two values of input[i] are 3.14159 and 2.71828. The exact result is 10005.85987, which rounds to 10005.9.

  4. Integer overflow - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, an integer overflow occurs when an arithmetic operation on integers attempts to create a numeric value that is outside of the range that can be represented with a given number of digits – either higher than the maximum or lower than the minimum representable value. The most common result of an overflow is that the ...

  5. Java compiler - Wikipedia

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    A Java compiler is a compiler for the Java programming language. Some Java compilers output optimized machine code for a particular hardware/ operating system combination, called a domain specific computer system. An example would be the now discontinued GNU Compiler for Java. [ 1]

  6. List of random number generators - Wikipedia

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    Popular choices are Salsa20 or ChaCha (often with the number of rounds reduced to 8 for speed), ISAAC, HC-128 and RC4. Block ciphers in counter mode. Common choices are AES (which is very fast on systems supporting it in hardware ), TwoFish, Serpent and Camellia. Cryptographic hash functions.

  7. 4,294,967,295 - Wikipedia

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    The number 4,294,967,295 is a whole number equal to 2 32 − 1. It is a perfect totient number, meaning it is equal to the sum of its iterated totients. [ 1][ 2] It follows 4,294,967,294 and precedes 4,294,967,296. It has a factorization of . In computing, 4,294,967,295 is the highest unsigned (that is, not negative) 32-bit integer, which makes ...

  8. Random number generation - Wikipedia

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    When a cubical die is rolled, a random number from 1 to 6 is obtained. Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator ( RNG ), a sequence of numbers or symbols that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance is generated. This means that the particular outcome sequence will contain ...

  9. List of arbitrary-precision arithmetic software - Wikipedia

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    In addition, it supports arbitrary-precision floating-point numbers, bigfloats. Maple, Mathematica, and several other computer algebra software include arbitrary-precision arithmetic. Mathematica employs GMP for approximate number computation. PARI/GP, an open source computer algebra system that supports arbitrary precision.