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> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> Actually the odds are far better than that. If the range is
Tom> 2^31-1 then only about 2^-16th of the outputs should be less
Tom> than 2^15. So ten probes gives you a failure probability of
Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Call random() several times and test the maximum value against your
> thresholds of 2^15 and 2^31. If random() is generating values in the
> range 1:2^31-1, you would expect half of your values to be greater
> than 2^15-1; more importantly, if you gene
