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| Nov 18, 2016 at 15:10 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | That's a nice alternative way to produce more than one digit by byte of /dev/random while still having a uniform distribution, that produces 320 digits for every 256 bytes of /dev/urandom on average (less than when you convert bytes < 200 modulo 100 to decimal which gives you 400 digits for every 256 bytes though). | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 8:35 | history | answered | sam hocevar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |