Re: Lotto simulation

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 16/06/2014 07:25, Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de a écrit :
> I am not aware of that discussion, 
AFAIK, it's archived somewhere...

> but mathematically, given a uniformly
> distributed real number F between 0.0 and 1.0, one can get a uniformly
> distributed discrete D between Low and high: D := Truncate(Low + F *
> (High-Low + 1)).
I think it all depends on the definition of "uniformly distributed". If
it is uniformly distributed among all representable floating point
numbers (which you get if you take an integer random number and
unchecked-convert it to Float), you'll get many more values below 0.5
than above (since the range 0.5..1.0 is represented with only one value
of the exponent).

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