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From: Vlad on 14 Feb 2006 12:01
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits
is, of course, in a state of sin."
John von Neumann.


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From: Stephen Howe on 19 Feb 2006 06:19
> NO!!!!

Provided the re-rolls are taken care of, it should make no difference at all
whether you do modulos or division (or any other operator that maps the
integers to a smaller range with same totals for each number) _PROVIDING_
rand() is returning with the same probability all the numbers from 0 to
RAND_MAX and other statisitcal tests.

But if rand() is statistically broken then whether you use modulos or
division is academic.

Stephen Howe



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