Qanswers and replace it with a fixed constant. That way we put enough weight onto the question score itself. So the formula becomes (Qscore * X) + sum(Ascore). X will need to be tuned to how much we value the question relative to the answers. 
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Since I'm the current world record holder for the most digits of pi, I'll add my two cents:
Unless you're actually setting a new world record, the common practice is just to verify the computed digits against the known values. So that's simple enough.
In fact, I have a webpage that lists snippe...
Could we please make a trial run of modified "hotness formula" for Programmers questions?
Modification details are described in this MSO post as follows:
As far as I can tell, substantial part of Qanswers in current formula is fake.
(log(Qviews)*4) + ((Qanswers * Qscore)/5) + sum(Ascor...
Suppose a1, b1, c1, and d1 point to heap memory and my numerical code has the following core loop.
const int n=100000
for(int j=0;j<n;j++){
a1[j] += b1[j];
c1[j] += d1[j];
}
This loop is executed 10,000 times via another outer for loop. To speed it up, I changed the code to:
for(i...
I bumped into this strange macro code in /usr/include/linux/kernel.h:
/* Force a compilation error if condition is true, but also produce a
result (of value 0 and type size_t), so the expression can be used
e.g. in a structure initializer (or where-ever else comma expressions
aren't per...
How many pointers (*) are allowed in a single variable?
Let's consider the following example.
int a = 10;
int *p = &a;
Similarly we can have
int **q = &p;
int ***r = &q;
and so on.
For example,
int ****************zz;
I wrote this simple C program:
int main(){
int i; int count = 0;
for(i = 0; i < 2000000000; i++){
count = count + 1;
}
}
I wanted to see how the gcc compiler optimizes this loop (clearly add 1 2000000000 times should be "add 2000000000 one time"). So:
$ gcc test.c
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