[Boost-users] Random numbers: problem with uniform_real random distribution

From: Dave Steffen (dgsteffen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-15 12:14:56

Hi Folks,

I'm getting some very odd results out of the random uniform_real
distribution.  The distribution
    
    uniform_real<> rdouble (-1, 3);

returns a sequence of number that looks like

 1.28327e+10
 2.34686e+09
 1.29337e+10
 1.25118e+10
 1.54783e+10
 1.13449e+10

which certainly doesn't meet the requirement of returning values in
[-1,3)!

I don't see any mention of this on the bug tracker; has anyone else
seen this?

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