I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, so I'm not sure if this should be documented or fixed. I believe this function creates a bias to smaller numbers, because it has a 1/9 chance to pick lengths from 1 to 9 inclusively, then it generates a random number from 0 to 10^(randomly picked size). So there's a 1/9 chance it'll pick a length of 1, then a 1/10 chance it'll pick a 0, leading to a 1/90 chance to pick 0 in a range that goes from 0 to 10^9.
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I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, so I'm not sure if this should be documented or fixed. I believe this function creates a bias to smaller numbers, because it has a 1/9 chance to pick lengths from 1 to 9 inclusively, then it generates a random number from 0 to 10^(randomly picked size). So there's a 1/9 chance it'll pick a length of 1, then a 1/10 chance it'll pick a 0, leading to a 1/90 chance to pick 0 in a range that goes from 0 to 10^9.
java-faker/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Number.java
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