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by IanCal 4708 days ago
I've submitted a pull request as there's a bug dealing with the initialisation of the average.

If the value is 0, you're assuming it's uninitialised, but that's not true. A sequence of 0,0,0,0,0,0,1 is valid and should not have a final moving average of 1.

More generally, it's a really bad idea to encode information in numbers like this.