Comment by palata
8 hours ago
So you say that programming mistakes make small numbers more likely to be picked, and therefore seeing a small number is less likely than seeing a bigger number?
That doesn't make sense, does it?
8 hours ago
So you say that programming mistakes make small numbers more likely to be picked, and therefore seeing a small number is less likely than seeing a bigger number?
That doesn't make sense, does it?
The claim is “if I generate a random number with equal distribution in a gigantic range and get a very tiny number, it’s more likely that there’s a mistake somewhere than that I just got this number randomly”.
Huh? Smaller numbers are a smaller part of the space.