In a recent study titled “Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects,” the author’s answer to a question about formatting byte counts was found to be the most copied snippet on Stack Overflow. The code was based on a loop, but the author realized that the suffixes used for byte counts are powers of 1000, and it could be computed using logarithms instead. The author’s code had a bug involving rounding errors, but after fixing it, the code works well. The study also found that proper attribution is often not given when copying code from Stack Overflow.
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