Random double

[Ivan Kazmenko]

On Wednesday, 24 April 2013 at 10:26:19 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> 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 
> ...

... but that is at least valid mathematically, albeit achievable 
only approximately on a computer.  On the other hand, an infinite 
case, even if it would be possible, won't be practical anyway 
since with probability 1, the result would require more bits to 
store than available on any modern hardware.