mpz_rrandomb

David Harvey dmharvey at math.harvard.edu
Fri Jan 12 01:28:24 CET 2007


Hi,

On my system (powerpc G3, mac os 10.3.9, GMP 4.2.1) it looks like the 
high bit of the output of mpz_rrandomb is always 1. i.e. if I ask for n 
bits, then bit #n is 1. Is this intentional? I have ended up wrapping 
it in another function which bit-complements the output with 
probability 1/2.

David



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