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On Thu, 22 May 2008, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> Does int(rand(x+1)) produce a uniformly-distributed random integer
>> between 1 and x?
>
> The perlfunc man page seems to suggest that this is so. I guess that
> for bootstrapping that the quality of the random number generator is
> rather important.
It could be important, but for what I am doing right now, it doesn't
matter. That is a good point though -- for a program that might be used
in many different ways we would want to know what we are getting from that
RNG. I don't know what Perl uses and I don't know what gawk uses.
Mike
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