Even if it returned 1.0, that would still leave 9 being produced a _very_ small amount of the time (like 1 in 18 quintillion assuming the full range of a float mapped from 0.0-1.0). Even at 20 characters, 24 times a day, year round, you’d only see a 9 pop up once in every 100 trillion years or so.
Lots of ways to mess that up (`rand() % 9`?). I’m more surprised that nobody noticed for so long. It’s not like this was some subtle cryptographic bug that would have required deep analysis to catch… “you had one job”, and just glancing at the output was, evidentially, enough for a lot of other people to catch on.
Lots of ways to mess that up (`rand() % 9`?). I’m more surprised that nobody noticed for so long. It’s not like this was some subtle cryptographic bug that would have required deep analysis to catch… “you had one job”, and just glancing at the output was, evidentially, enough for a lot of other people to catch on.