Faster uniform() in [0.0 - 1.0(

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Mon Nov 22 18:32:12 PST 2010


Don:

> Since the probability of actually generating a 
> zero is 1e-4000, it shouldn't affect the speed at all <g>.

If bits in double have the same probability then I think there is a much higher probability to hit a zero, about 1 in 2^^63, and I'm not counting NaNs (but it's low enough to not change the substance of what you have said).

Bye,
bearophile


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