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Idiom #14 Pick uniformly a random floating point number in [a..b)

Pick a random number greater than or equals to a, strictly inferior to b. Precondition : a < b.

function pick(a, b:real): real;
begin
  result := a + random * (b - a);
end;

real can be exchanged with, or set to any other float type like
single, double, extended ...
#include <stdlib.h>
double pick(double a, double b)
{
	return a + (double)rand() / ((double)RAND_MAX * (b - a));
}

this is not uniformly distributed!!

New implementation...
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