Objective-C: Modulo bias

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Use arc4random_uniform(x). This does it for you.

According to the man page:

arc4random_uniform() will return a uniformly distributed random number less than upper_bound. arc4random_uniform() is recommended over constructions like arc4random() % upper_bound as it avoids “modulo bias” when the upper bound is not a power of two.

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