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a. Examine the random-number generator on your system. How random is it?b. Figure 1 shows...

a. Examine the random-number generator on your system. How random is it?
b. Figure 1 shows a routine to flip a coin, assuming that random returns an integer (which is prevalent in many systems). What is the expected performance of the skip list algorithms if the random-number generator uses a modulus of the form M = 2B (which is unfortunately prevalent on many systems)?

Figure 1: Questionable coin flipper

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