Re: Random number generators

"Ron Shepard" <ron-shepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| In binary floating point, are the same number of (equally spaced)
| values between .25 and .50 as there are between .50 and 1.0. Then
| there are that same number of values between .125 and .25, and that
| same number of values again between .0625 and .125, and so on, all
| the way down to the minimum exponent value. In most formats, there
| are about the same number of exponents less than zero as there are
| greater than zero, so about half of the exponent range corresponds
| to floating point values that are between 0 and .5, and only a
| single exponent value corresponds to the floating point values
| between .5 and 1.
|
| For a given exponent, should a PRNG return all of the associated
| floating point values with equal probability, or only some of them?

Probably a case for integer RNGs.


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