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How to generate a double-precision floating-point number in [0, 1] (2014)
- alnsn 12y agoWhy [0, 1] interval is so popular in random number generators? It's one of the worst intervals possible imo because it includes subnormal numbers. The interval [1, 2] is much nicer. Some implementations generate random numbers in [1, 2] and subtract 1.0: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.luajit/3051 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.luajit/3051