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  • Dart

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.

import  'dart:math';
double pick(num a, num b) => a + new Random().nextDouble() * (b - a);
#include <stdlib.h>
double pick(double a, double b)
{
	return a + (double)rand() / ((double)RAND_MAX * (b - a));
}

this is not uniformly distributed!!

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