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		JimDabell on Sept 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time ... There is still the chance. As the article states, OpenJDK copied from the Stack Overflow answer.

ziml77 on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

Sure, but if OpenJDK is exposing that function then anyone who is using it will get the correct output when OpenJDK fixes the problem. If everyone copies the function into their own code then in many cases it's likely to never be corrected.

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