"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message 
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> Le 16/06/2014 13:15, Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de a écrit :
>> Well, do you think the Annotated Reference Manual
>> <http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12aarm/html/AA-A-5-2.html> needs a
>> clarification? It explicitely tells
>>
>>   A sufficiently long sequence of random numbers obtained by successive
>>   calls to Random is approximately uniformly distributed over the range 
>> of
>>   the result subtype.
>
> OK, maybe it's another issue, and it's not my domain of knowledge. But I
> certainly remember that the decision to provide separate discrete and
> floating generators was deliberate and for good reasons. Maybe Randy
> remembers where the discussions were archived?

No, I don't. Sorry. - Randy.