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)". On the other hand, a
(discrete) uniform distribution of the bit pattern, or restricted
bit pattern (that is, no special values), is of course valid. A
"random positive double" as a bit pattern most closely resembles
exponential distribution I think.
