Round Numbers and Security Returns by Edward Johnson et al: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7731/c305735ecb9cf3f3f48afff5293ecb934e14.pdf
Prices of stocks tend to cluster around round numbers! The paper doesn't find any clear explanation, but it seems likely it's a human bias somewhere.
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* I've added a left margin, showing both the file name and line numbers
* I'm showing one line of context above/below the offending line.
* I'm using grey for comments.
What do you think? Is there anything you'd change?
It's always seemed odd to me that the Rust stdlib is so lean (no random numbers, regex, HTTP) yet clippy is so big (correctness, performance, style preferences, even 'too many arguments').
Maybe it's because cargo is mature but clippy doesn't have an extension ecosystem?