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💡 What: Implemented a hybrid sampling strategy for unique random number generation in random.html.

🎯 Why: The original rejection sampling approach (using a Set and while loop) suffers from the "Coupon Collector's Problem", where the probability of finding a new unique number decreases exponentially as the set fills up. This leads to catastrophic performance collapse and potential browser hangs for high-density requests.

📊 Impact:

  • High-density requests (e.g., 999,990 out of 1,000,000) are now ~4.8x faster (~355ms vs ~1,713ms).
  • Medium-density requests (e.g., 95,000 out of 100,000) show a measurable speedup (~23ms vs ~29ms).
  • Guarantees predictable O(N) performance for all valid inputs.

🔬 Measurement: Verified using a Playwright-based benchmark script measuring pure JavaScript execution time inside the browser environment. Functionality verified to ensure numbers remain unique and order remains random via Fisher-Yates shuffle.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 8989236215375858009 started by @babelman97

Implemented a hybrid sampling strategy in random.html to avoid the
Coupon Collector's Problem performance bottleneck.

- Uses rejection sampling for sparse requests (count <= 50% of range)
- Uses exclusion-based sampling + Fisher-Yates shuffle for dense requests
- Documented ~4.8x speedup for extreme density scenarios.

Co-authored-by: babelman97 <186798789+babelman97@users.noreply.github.com>
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