It's maybe slower than fudging, but I have more faith in it.

Having called it "fudging", there is actually very sound math sitting behind it. I'm not competent to explain the math, but I can explain my testing. I've run all permutations of M & N from 1 through 10,000; and 500 million random selections of M & N = 1 .. 2**32 without seeing a single error.

Given that in the original form, there was a 1 in 15 error rate, the odds that if there were any errors with the "fudged" algorithm, that I have not detected 1 of them after 600 million trials, are so vanishingly small as to be ... well, very, very unlikely.

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In reply to Re^5: Split range 0 to M into N non-overlapping (roughly equal) ranges. by BrowserUk
in thread Split range 0 to M into N non-overlapping (roughly equal) ranges. by BrowserUk

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