Philippe Meunier wrote: > jot -r 100000 1 3 | sort -n | uniq -c > > which the man page clearly indicates should produce something like: > > 24950 1 > 50038 2 > 25012 3 > > which is also more in line with the "generate random floating point > number and truncate to even" model which is described (not very > clearly, IMHO) in the man page.
That's an artifact of implementation and the fact that the code was written in a particular way 900 years ago. As a user, 'jot -r 1 1 6' looks like it should give me a fair roll. I should not have to scavenge around in the man page to find out jot uses loaded dice.
