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Note that this article is not about the random number generating scheme, but about post-processing to get a random number within a certain range. That said, the author specifically points out xoshiro as a random number generating scheme to watch out for:

One other concern we might have is that some generators have weak low-order bits. For example, the Xoroshiro+ and Xoshiro+ families of PRNGs have low-order bits that fail statistical tests. When we perform % 52 (because 52 is even) we pass the lowest bit straight through into the output.




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