Split value in 24 randomly sized parts using C#

Question

I have a value, say 20010. I want to randomly divide this value over 24 hours. So basically split the value into a 24 slot big array where all slots are randomly big.

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Answer 1

If you want to be sure that you're not biasing the process without much analysis, you could just create a 24 element array, initialize each element to 0 and then add 1 to one of the elements at random 20010 times.

It all depends on the kind of distributions you want to see, but I don't think any of the other techniques recommend so far will result in the hour-long "buckets" being statistically indistinguishable.