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Just FYI, what Wikipedia is talking about is biased but still random distribution that thus wouldn't have the possible problem of correlation between successive "tosses".

Not that I have any knowledge any given pseudo-random number generator would trouble with long series's of zeros. Still, scheme I had in my parent post was aiming to avoid potential problems with that kind of thing.



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