[mercury-users] a typeclassful random.m

[Peter Schachte]

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

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>     However, there are quite a few applications of random floating point    
>     numbers where returning 0.0 would be a devastating bug.  It took me
>     ages to get my head around this.  I even patched a copy of the
>     Mersenne Twister code to "fix" what I thought was the "bug" of not
>     returning 0.0.  Until the day I happened to have one of those uses
>     where 0.0 really won't do, and I was Enlightened.  (Oh.  Other people
>     really are smarter than me.)

Hi Richard,

So are you saying that there should be a function to return a float in [0.0,
1.0) and another for (0.0, 1.0), or that only the latter is desirable?

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