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Bias to smaller numbers #752

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AlexWillisson opened this issue Jan 24, 2023 · 1 comment
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Bias to smaller numbers #752

AlexWillisson opened this issue Jan 24, 2023 · 1 comment

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@AlexWillisson
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I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, so I'm not sure if this should be documented or fixed. I believe this function creates a bias to smaller numbers, because it has a 1/9 chance to pick lengths from 1 to 9 inclusively, then it generates a random number from 0 to 10^(randomly picked size). So there's a 1/9 chance it'll pick a length of 1, then a 1/10 chance it'll pick a 0, leading to a 1/90 chance to pick 0 in a range that goes from 0 to 10^9.

public long randomNumber() {

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bodiam commented Jan 24, 2023

Alex, this library is no longer maintained. Have a look at www.datafaker.net for a drop-in replacement

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