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Comment by ooopdddddd

There are several very practical reasons (and not emotional) reasons to expect that "4" is the result of bad implementation.

I can think any number of programming mistakes that will result in a supposed (pseudo-)random number generator to be be biased to very small numbers. I have made such mistakes myself.

By any reasonable estimate, the probability of randomly picking a number below 256 is MUCH smaller than the probability of someone having made a mistake.

parent ooopdddddd 10 days ago

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