Generate random integers with probabilities

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Here’s a useful trick 🙂

function randomWithProbability() {
  var notRandomNumbers = [1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4];
  var idx = Math.floor(Math.random() * notRandomNumbers.length);
  return notRandomNumbers[idx];
}

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