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Elixir unique numbers

I just found out that Elixir has a function that gets an unique_integer/1. This is very useful for Factories if you want to implement something like sequences to avoid errors due to database unique constraints.

iex(1)> System.unique_integer(~w[monotonic positive]a) 
1
iex(2)> System.unique_integer(~w[monotonic positive]a) 
2
iex(3)> System.unique_integer(~w[monotonic positive]a) 
3
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