Statistics

The numbers generated by random are supposed to be distributed uniformly. If you have taken statistics, you know what that means. Among other things, it means that if we divide the range of possible values into equal sized "buckets," and count the number of times a random value falls in each bucket, each bucket should get the same number of hits (eventually).

In the next few sections, we will write programs that generate a sequence of random numbers and check whether this property holds true.