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Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:48:45 +0100
Mark Tillotson wrote:
> But for _reals_, which is what is being talked about, it is perfectly
> useful. The interval [0,1) would also be rather pointless in the
> integral domain!
>
> Anyway, surely we are talking about rationals or floating-point, not
> true reals?!? Just notating a random real number is computationally
> infeasible, requiring infinite space.
In general computing I suppose it is well-known that one can obtain
any statistical distribution (discrete or not) from a uniform
distribution in [0,1).
M. K. Shen
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