Should uniform(-real.max, real.max) be inf?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

On 2012-03-01 10:52:49 +0000, Magnus Lie Hetland said:

> I could just use
> 
>   uniform(cast(T) -1, cast(T) 1)*T.max
> 
> I guess (for some floating-point type T). Seems to work fine, at least.

Aaactually, not so much. The output here seems to get about the same 
exponent as T.max. Which isn't all that surprising, I guess. (Then 
again, most floating-point numbers *are* pretty large ;-)

So ... any suggestions?

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