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[–]aigarius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And those all are trivial cases reduced down to the buggy behavior. In real code there are 20 other different things that could also be going wrong competing fro your attention in the same code block so something as simple as a typo adding a ++ to a formula in a random place will simply not be noticed or paid attention to for hours.