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WorkLifeBalance
on July 25, 2018
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Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range
The modulo approach is biased for all ranges which don't divide the full range but only a small amount of bias at small ranges rather than a large amount of bias at large ranges.
dagenix
on July 25, 2018
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I don't disagree - I just very much hate the phrase "over engineered" as I think it never adds anything to a discussion.
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