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Re: inclusive rand

by vrk (Chaplain)
on Mar 13, 2017 at 17:09 UTC ( [id://1184450]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to inclusive rand

A bit of probability theory: if X has the Uniform(0,1) distribution, the support (range) is [0,1]. If the support is actually [0,1), then the distribution is actually Uniform(0, 1-epsilon) for some small epsilon. In this case, if you knew what epsilon is, you could scale by the width of the support to get Y = X/(1 - epsilon - 0) = X/(1 - epsilon) and Y would have true Uniform(0,1) distribution.

As others have pointed out, there are a number of factors involved and epsilon likely isn't just the machine epsilon or unit roundoff. Besides, even if it were, see pryrt's reply Re^6: inclusive rand. The figure in question is too small; on normal floating point hardware, dividing by 1-epsilon would be no different from dividing by 1.

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Re^2: inclusive rand
by Lotus1 (Vicar) on Mar 13, 2017 at 18:34 UTC

    This finds the smallest difference between any two random values. 

    use strict;
use warnings;
use List::MoreUtils qw(uniq);
use List::Util qw(min);

my @samples = sort { $a <=> $b } uniq map {rand} 1..3000;

print scalar @samples, " unique samples.\n";

print "The minimum difference is ", min map { $samples[$_] - $samples[
+$_-1] } 1..$#samples;

__END__
2861 unique samples.
The minimum difference is 3.0517578125e-005

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