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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Random number generation
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:22:00 +0200, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> I don't think that gives uniformly distributed numbers, since it only 
> produces results that are some multiple of Number, plus the Modifier.

Yes, you are right, I forgot that the range is bound.

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