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peteretep on Dec 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Learn When to Quit

> real-life sets of numerical data

Today you learned: Node’s random number generator isn’t selecting from a real-life set of numerical data

atum47 on Dec 8, 2019 [–]

yeah, I just mixed two informations. I thought the other person said my algorithm would be biased towards small numbers cause I use the JS random function to pick the number of decimal places for the number

bentona on Dec 8, 2019 | [–]

Yep, sorry, didn't mean to say this directly applied, just a neat concept that's somewhat related.

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