Java: Can (new Random()).nextInt(5) always return the same number?

Question

Sometimes this piece of code always returns the same number (and sometimes it works fine):

(new Random()).nextInt(5)

I have suspicions wher

Answer 1

The best way to approximate uniform distribution is to use the static method Random.nextInt(n) to produce integers in the range [0, n-1] (Yes, n is excluded). In your particular example, if you want integers in the range 0 to 5, inclusive, you would call Random.nextInt(6).