Bug 64062 - $RANDOM alternates between even and odd numbers
Summary: $RANDOM alternates between even and odd numbers
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: bash
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: wdovlrrw
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-24 20:35 UTC by Philipp Rumpf
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-04-24 20:35:47 UTC
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Description Philipp Rumpf 2002-04-24 20:35:43 UTC 
Description of Problem:
$RANDOM alternates between even and odd numbers.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash 2.05.8(1)-release


How Reproducible:
reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1. bash -c 'echo $((($RANDOM+$RANDOM) % 2))'


Actual Results:
1


Expected Results:
0 or 1 at 50 per cent probability each
Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-07-23 08:31:38 UTC 
Fixed in current version of bash available via rawhide.

(Or at least can't reproduce the described behaviour with the current version
anymore).

Read ya, Phil
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