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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada2005 random
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:44 +0000 (UTC)
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* Peter Hermann wrote:
> Rodrigo Garc?a <rodrigo.garcia.ARROBA.epfl.ch> wrote:
>>   Pick a random number from Integer and do a "mod" operation.

> well: you won the first round :-)

No.

> instantiation of discrete_random with an actual generic parameter
> having a huge range of values, such as integer or natural or positive
> and then mod,abs should sufficiently satisfy my statistic conscience.

Using "mod" destroys the uniformness of your random data an therefore will
not meet most of the assumed randomness preconditions.