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by XaspR8d 4428 days ago
Yeah, I'd love to help in some way, but the number of results is huge and without bots I'm discouraged from doing anything manually.

Maybe we can create a resource of common typos in numerical constants that would auto-detect by edit distance? But I suppose most people willing to check a resource like that probably already double check their arithmetic. (That said, I've probably had this exact bug somewhere in my coding history, so no shame.)

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Yeah, maybe the answer is a hybrid, bots that look for common mistakes and a website that lets people login to github and displays the potential fixes so they can fix the code in the browser and send the pull request. Like a way to try and introduce people to open source through guided fixes more or less.