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authorGabriel Dos Reis <gdr@axiomatics.org>2015-12-31 14:56:12 -0800
committerGabriel Dos Reis <gdr@axiomatics.org>2015-12-31 14:56:12 -0800
commitf51aee83708673ef9941174951bec9aee80cb03c (patch)
tree4d8cfccd653dfa09819234bc61a8775091e4f1e6 /src/algebra/ffpoly.spad.pamphlet
parent039d244dbef31e4ca6d34d2cf42b58b41a572884 (diff)
downloadopen-axiom-f51aee83708673ef9941174951bec9aee80cb03c.tar.gz
Avoid modulus bias in 'random()' usage.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/algebra/ffpoly.spad.pamphlet')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/algebra/ffpoly.spad.pamphlet b/src/algebra/ffpoly.spad.pamphlet
index cc219171..b2cea908 100644
--- a/src/algebra/ffpoly.spad.pamphlet
+++ b/src/algebra/ffpoly.spad.pamphlet
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ FiniteFieldPolynomialPackage GF : Exports == Implementation where
random(m,n) ==
if m > n then (m,n) := (n,m)
d : NNI := (n - m) :: NNI
- if d > 1 then n := ((random()$I rem (d::PI)) + m) :: PI
+ if d > 1 then n := (random(d)$I + m) :: PI
random(n)
@