Re: Ada2005 random

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>         Might do for the short run, but I can see a failure in the long
>         run...
> 
>         For simplicity, say "Integer" covers 0..8, and the selection run 0..7 
> (necessitating use of a mod 8)... The result will be that selection 0 
> will have 2/9 chances with 1..7 having 1/9, rather than all having a 
> 1/8 chance.

Ok, but integer has a range of -(2 ** 31) .. +(2 ** 31 - 1) so the difference
could be something around +/- (x / (2 ** 31 - 1)) !

Not so bad for a simple program I would say.

Pascal.

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