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Jacques Heunis
Personal blog · jacquesheunis.com/postprogrammingmath
Jacques Heunis's personal blog at jacquesheunis.com covers programming and math. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-13, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked as a follow-up to a 2018 HN post on efficiently generating a number in a range. The linked 2021 post covers newer techniques for bounded random number generation.
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What Hacker News says?
This post https://jacquesheunis.com/post/bounded-random/ from 2021 contains some newer techniques.
Comment linking /post/bounded-random/
on “Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range (2018)”Submitted Rotors: A practical introduction for 3D graphics (2023) as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fortunes Algorithm: An Intuitive Explanation as a story · 3 points
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