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by blauditore 2101 days ago
Re 2.: OTOH, the bias is extremely tiny, there's only 2 out of 2^31 cases which are problematic, or one in a billion. A generic RNG obviously shouldn't do it this way, but for most applications it would be good-enough really.
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The article claims that "it is indeed a uniform distribution" so I wanted to point it out.