Tim Peters added the comment: > It skews the distribution a tiny little bit, ...
But it doesn't - that's the point ;-) If double-rounding doesn't occur at all (which appears to be the case on most platforms), absolutely nothing changes (because min(int(random() * N), N-1) == int(random() * N) on such boxes). If double-rounding does occur, double-rounding itself may change results "all over the place", and I haven't tried to analyze what effects that has on the distribution. In the comparative handful of cases where int(random() * N) == N on such boxes, clamping that back to N-1 just yields the same result we would have gotten on a box that didn't do double-rounding. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24567> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
