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From: somebody
Date: 12 May 2008 22:26:22
Message: <4828fc4e@news.povray.org>
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote

> BTW, in working with this technique (and running some other experiments),
I've
> found that rand() doesn't actually HIT zero or one.

A pseudo random generator should in practice not hit *any* given number, not
just 0 and 1, unless you cover its period at least a few times. Further, in
practice again, some (or many) numbers in range will simply be "unhittable".


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