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in reply to Send x% of the users to A, the rest to B

This one-liner shows that if you use rand() < 0.5 to decide between locations -- even if the rand calls are in different invocations of perl -- the distribution will be fairly split:

perl -E"{++$t;$r=`perl -E\"say rand()\"`;$r<.5?++$a:++$b; printf qq[\r +%.3f : %.3f], $a*100/$t, $b*100/$t; redo}" 49.350 : 50.650

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