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rollcat
3 days ago
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/dev/null is an ACID compliant database
You can dismiss it as a triviality, but in CS it's always worth considering (what you assume to be) an "identity" value, and its edge cases. Does your DSP algorithm work with near-zero values as well as it does with "true" zero?
(hint: look up subnormal floats.)
magicalhippo
3 days ago
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I was only dismissing it in the sense that if you were picking a database to use, you'd avoid the "trivial solution" of /dev/null.
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(hint: look up subnormal floats.)