While reviewing a colleagues code for a hard to identify bug, I encountered what for me is a new design pattern for triggering events with a given probability. In the past when needing to trigger an event with a certain probability, say 5% I would also use a code snippet like the following: even…

Interesting probability design pattern

winner10920 June 4, 2012, 7:24pm 4

Definetly can't see any advantage other than making it a little more straightfoward

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