Ian Piumarta ian.piumarta@inria.fr is claimed by the authorities to have written:
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Tim Rowledge wrote:
OK, I have a working trivial plugin for this that just does a 30bit int for now. Seems to work ok - making a bag of 1000 values suggests it at least does a tolerable job. Though it does bother me a bit that in a whole load of tests I've not seen any number with less than a half-dozen digits.
Shouldn't you be expecting slightly less than 1 in 10,000 to be < 6 digits? Make a Bag of 100,000 of 'em and see if you get 10 or so less than 10^6.
Err... guess so. I got 9 elements < 100000 out of 100000 randoms. I'll let somebody far more anal retentive than I do a ful anal-yis.
tim