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Sentinel values are too often found in real data eventually, which is why they're most often used in academic environments, and by fresh grads. First or second
by pwinnski 4y ago
Sentinel values are too often found in real data eventually, which is why they're most often used in academic environments, and by fresh grads. First or second time the sentinel value that could never possibly be found in real data is found in real data, you start looking for other solutions.
- CRConrad 4y agoBack in the 1980s, the statistics package -- application, really, but this was before that word had become wide-spread in academic environments for that sort of thing -- Statgraphics used -32768[1] for "Missing Value", i.e. "NULL". Had to fudge our actual -32768 values to -32767. ___ [1]: The signed-integer value of a word full of set bits ('1' values) on a 16-bit twos-complement processor like the Intel 80286? Something like that.