Theo Buehler wrote:
>$ jot -r -p 0 100000 1 3 | sort -n | uniq -c
>33464 1
>33246 2
>33290 3
According to the man page, "in the absence of -p, the precision is the
greater of the numbers begin and end". Since both 1 and 3 have a
precision of zero, therefore I would expect your command:
jot -r -p 0 100000 1 3 | sort -n | uniq -c
to behave exactly the same way as this one:
jot -r 100000 1 3 | sort -n | uniq -c
which the man page clearly indicates should produce something like:
24950 1
50038 2
25012 3
which is also more in line with the "generate random floating point
number and truncate to even" model which is described (not very
clearly, IMHO) in the man page.
Philippe
