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Comment by billforsternz

In general, it's often a good idea to munge pure probabilities to improve user experience. A very well known example is shuffle play. If you use pure probabilities you'll reliably play tracks back to back occasionally, frustrating users. A paradoxical quirk of true randomness is that it reliably throws out improbable events.

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