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A recent study title Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects found that the most copied code snippet ever happens to be buggy.

1. Start by installing perl http://strawberryperl.com/
2. Install App::Ack by typing (in a windows command shell)
3. C:>cpan App::Ack

“You should be aware that while Random() is usually uniformly distributed, Random()Random() is not. And so is Random()+Random().” - Belisarius Nice illustration of Central Limit theorem.