Greg Egan on Nostr: I’m a novice in Python compared to the languages I’ve used for decades, so it ...
I’m a novice in Python compared to the languages I’ve used for decades, so it took me a while to jam the message into my brain: if you want your code to give identical results each time it’s run, never iterate over the members of a set without turning it into a sorted list first.
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