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		infogulch on May 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2 That makes sense. A quick search didn't reveal any good resources for how to test the quality of a random number generator in a number range. Is what I came up with the best strategy, and you just need to run it for much longer (and compare to a known-good implementation) to see the difference?

codeflo on May 2, 2024 [–]

Why would you need to “see” it? Unlike the distribution of the RNG itself, this is trivial to solve analytically.

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