[erlang-questions] On OTP rand module difference between OTP 19 and OTP 20

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 02:57:49PM +1200, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
:
> 
> I could personally live with a warning in the documentation that says
> that the random number generator could return 0.0, and here's a little
> loop you might use to avoid that, and another suggestion in the code
> about how to get the result Michael Truog wants.
> 
> I just want it to be obvious that it's dangerous to assume that the
> result will not be 0.

That can surely merit a warning, even though the interval is documented.

> 
> By the way, given that a common way to make random floats is to
> generate a bitvector, consider
> (0 to: 15) collect: [:each | ((each / 15) * 256) truncated].
> You will notice that the spacing between the values is *almost*
> uniform, but not at the end.

That sounds interesting but I do not understand.  Is that Elixir code?

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB