Martin Weiss <[email protected]> :
I might be wrong, but after a quick look at help random_number_functions
Range: 0 to nearly 1 (0 to 1 - 2^(-32))
I assumed that uniform() is zero about 1 time in 2^32 iterations. It
is never 1, though, so 1-uniform() is "safe" in the sense of my prior
message.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
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> "...0 with probability about 1 in 4 billion"
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> Out of curiosity, how do you calculate that for a continuous random
> variable?
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