[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54619] randi() is biased

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #27, bug #54619 (project octave):

@mleitner: Someone has asked over on the Octave Discourse site
(https://octave.discourse.group/t/baffling-expressions-in-randi-implementation/4138)
why the code in randi.m has expressions of this form:


(flintmax() + 1)


It is true that flintmax() is the largest representable integer and that


(flintmax() + 1) == flintmax()


so it would seem that there is a simplification that could be made.  But, I
wanted to ask here since you wrote the code and might have had a reason that I
don't immediately divine.



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