[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54619] randi() is biased

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #54619 (project octave):

I hear the assertion that the Octave method is incorrect, but I haven't been
able to determine that myself.  But, assuming it is incorrect, is it
inadequate?  That's why I want a numerical estimate of the bias of the current
system.  The last argument, not re-inventing the wheel, is the most
compelling.  Octave only recently began requiring C++11 so it is now possible
to contemplate using the STL for this case.  Long term, we would like to move
all of the random number generation to the standard library, but we also have
to support legacy random number generators (as Matlab does), so the code is
always going to be rather complicated so that programmers can reproduce
simulations they have written years ago.

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