I have been troubleshooting this script for weeks and finally found it was trying to divide by zero.
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Makes me think of devs who debug with print statements instead of a debugger and breakpoints.
Well, Kernighan himself said "The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements."
If it was good enough for him...
/me glances sideways at codebase
Worked on a project last year with one dev who was always super slow when having to debug even the simplest things. Turns out they didn't know debuggers; just print statements... That person had more then 5 years of exp and was sold as a senior dev. But apparently nobody ever really coached them after uni and they never picked it up themselves :|