Random double

[Andrea Fontana]

On Wednesday, 24 April 2013 at 06:56:44 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 April 2013 at 06:37:50 UTC, qznc wrote:
>> It also raises the question what uniform means in the context 
>> of floating point. Uniform over the numbers or uniform over
>> the bit patterns?
>
> I'd like to mention that there's no such mathematical object as 
> "uniform distribution on [0..+infinity)".

... you neither can choose a random real number in any interval 
...