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Classical floating point random numbers fail simple tests when considered as rational numbers.
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Morgenstern, T. (2007). Uniform Random Rational Number Generation. In: Waldmann, KH., Stocker, U.M. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2006. Operations Research Proceedings, vol 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69995-8_90
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