Philip Guenther wrote in <fab9d5b0-35b5-cc68-51b-2528664...@gmail.com>: |On Sun, 15 May 2022, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> Stuart Henderson wrote in |... |>|what's the perceived problem you're wanting to solve? and does that |>|problem actually exist in the first place? |> |> The problem is that if have a low upper bound then modulo will "remove a |> lot of randomization". For example if you have a program which |> generates Lotto numbers (1..49), then using _uniform() as it is will |> generate many duplicates. | |Wut. The *WHOLE POINT* of arc4random_uniform() is that it has uniform |distribution. Says right so in the manpage. If an implementation of that |API fails to do that, it's a broken implementation.
I always admired its source code comments and have been left stunning more than just once. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
