On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 06:04:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 03:08:03PM +0000, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > > Hello Guile Users, > > > > today I want to verify some understanding I have about generating random > > numbers using Guile. > > [...] > > > Some time ago, I wanted to generate uniformly distributed floats though. > > Wait a minute: you want uniformly distributed floats (in an interval, > I assume)?
Perhaps something graphical (I hope y'all have fixed pitch fonts ;-)
Uniform probability density (usually across some fixed interval, say [0,1)
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0 1
Normal (say, with expectation value 0.5)
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| ...
| . .
|.. ..
+--------------------
0 1
(er... well, more or less). The normal one never gets to zero,
but approaches asymptotically the X line.
Cheers
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