Random double

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Tue Apr 23 13:59:41 PDT 2013


qznc:

> I want to generate a random "double" value, excluding wierdos 
> like NaN and Infinity. However, std.random.uniform seems to be 
> useless.

Can you explain why you need uniform doubles in their whole 
range? I think I have never had to generate them so far. Maybe 
for a unittest?

Also note by their nature doubles are not equally spread across 
the line of Reals, so getting a truly uniform distribution is 
hard or impossible.

Bye,
bearophile


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