Package: athena-jot
Version: 9.0-1
Severity: normal
Might be self-explanatory:
# generate 500,000 random numbers between 0 and 10
# sort them numerically, then count 'em.
% jot -r 500000 0 10 | sort -g | uniq -c
24839 0
49659 1
49871 2
49971 3
50205 4
50438 5
49596 6
50303 7
50221 8
49856 9
25041 10
Now '0' and '10' show up about half as often. That's not
what most users would expect; it would be better if this
were either:
1) fixed, so '0' and '10' show up as often as the rest.
2) documented, so users know what to expect for boundary numbers.
Hope this helps...
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
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Versions of packages athena-jot depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
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