Uniform random number is not Uniform!!!

[rohan]

I used the unsigned long mpz_urandomm(ran, s, N) function to generate a
random number. the documentation says that the number generated will be
uniformly distributed between 0 and n-1 inclusive!!! but after running the
program several times i realised that for smaller N's the random numbers are
better distributed in the range 0 to n-1
I wrote this small piece of code, it basically generates random numbers from
0 to n-1, where n = z^ex
---------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <gmp.h>

int main(void) {
    gmp_randstate_t s;
    unsigned long seed, i, z,ex;
mpz_t big;
mpz_init(big);
mpz_t store;
ex = 10;
z=2;
 mpz_ui_pow_ui(big, z, ex);
 gmp_printf("BIG : %Zd", big);
 gmp_randinit_default(s);
    seed = time(NULL); // system time
    gmp_randseed_ui(s, seed);
   for(i = 0; i < 50; ++i) {
        mpz_init(store);
       mpz_urandomm (store, s, big);
    gmp_printf("\nRAN : %Zd", store);
      }
    gmp_randclear(s);
     return 0;
}
-------------------------------------------------------
now the random numbers were evenly distributed for ex=10, but for ex = 256,
the random numbers generated were mostly in the range on 2^240  to 2^256 ,
how can this be called evenly distributed?? am I missing something or this
has something to do with the seed value.
Help is appreciated! Thanks in advance.
-- 
View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Uniform-random-number-is-not-Uniform%21%21%21-tf2373619.html#a6613018
Sent from the Gnu - GMP - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.