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// Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// This file validates that the calculation in Uint64n corrects for
// possible bias.
package rand
import (
"testing"
)
// modSource is used to probe the upper region of uint64 space. It
// generates values sequentially in [maxUint64-15,maxUint64]. With
// modEdge == 15 and maxUint64 == 1<<64-1 == 18446744073709551615,
// this means that Uint64n(10) will repeatedly probe the top range.
// We thus expect a bias to result unless the calculation in Uint64n
// gets the edge condition right. We test this by calling Uint64n 100
// times; the results should be perfectly evenly distributed across
// [0,10).
type modSource uint64
const modEdge = 15
func (m *modSource) Seed(uint64) {}
// Uint64 returns a non-pseudo-random 64-bit unsigned integer as a uint64.
func (m *modSource) Uint64() uint64 {
if *m > modEdge {
*m = 0
}
r := maxUint64 - *m
*m++
return uint64(r)
}
func TestUint64Modulo(t *testing.T) {
var src modSource
rng := New(&src)
var result [10]uint64
for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
result[rng.Uint64n(10)]++
}
for _, r := range result {
if r != 10 {
t.Fatal(result)
}
}
}