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It may be good to start to ask whether your nice obedient little line is just a coincidence in your testing data. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.159|172.71.26.159]] 17:22, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 
It may be good to start to ask whether your nice obedient little line is just a coincidence in your testing data. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.159|172.71.26.159]] 17:22, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 
:By the time you've happily worked out why the strange exceptions aren't actually strange/exceptions, you realise that there's no real underlying reason that carefully regiments the 'clearly patterned' bits and that's just a pure artefact of data... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.132|172.70.86.132]] 18:24, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 
:By the time you've happily worked out why the strange exceptions aren't actually strange/exceptions, you realise that there's no real underlying reason that carefully regiments the 'clearly patterned' bits and that's just a pure artefact of data... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.132|172.70.86.132]] 18:24, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
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:Related: You have two numbers which are supposed to be same but differs. Sure there is small bug in computing one of them ... and sure you find it, fix it ... and the difference became about twice as big. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 20:10, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

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So true! If the outliers look weird, it's often because you've misunderstood something about the whole set. ProphetZarquon (talk) 17:11, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

It may be good to start to ask whether your nice obedient little line is just a coincidence in your testing data. 172.71.26.159 17:22, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

By the time you've happily worked out why the strange exceptions aren't actually strange/exceptions, you realise that there's no real underlying reason that carefully regiments the 'clearly patterned' bits and that's just a pure artefact of data... 172.70.86.132 18:24, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Related: You have two numbers which are supposed to be same but differs. Sure there is small bug in computing one of them ... and sure you find it, fix it ... and the difference became about twice as big. -- Hkmaly (talk) 20:10, 3 July 2023 (UTC)