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From: Dale Stanbrough <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Ada2005 random
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In article <slrnb8r5e4.ov.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>,
 Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de> wrote:

> * Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> > How about
> >    for i in reverse 8..2 loop
> >       put (random (blah) mod i);
> >    end loop;
> > ?
> 
> This is not uniformly distributed. Don't use that!

If the random numbers are uniformly distributed, why wouldn't a 
window on that distribution also be uniformly distributed?
Could you give an example?

Dale