floating-point Random

luismarques Joined: 12/25/06 Posts: 2

Posted: 01/03/08 12:42:03 Would it be possible to add a new member to Random so that it returned real numbers? Or perhaps some kind of RealRandom? class.

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kris Joined: 03/27/04 Posts: 581	Posted: 01/04/08 20:54:04 (you can always cast the return value, and scale it appropriately)
kris Joined: 03/27/04 Posts: 581	Posted: 01/07/08 05:43:16 This would likely require a new type of Random, since the algorithm would have to be different in order to deal with the greater range. If you have such an algorithm in mind, please submit it?
kris Joined: 03/27/04 Posts: 581	Posted: 02/17/08 06:54:47 We'll add something for this soon. Just a case of getting time for it