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Generating Random Floating-Point Numbers by Dividing Integers: A Case Study

A method widely used to obtain IEEE 754 binary floating-point numbers with a standard uniform distribution involves drawing an integer uniformly at random and dividing it by another larger integer. We survey the various instances of the algorithm that are used in actual software and point out their...

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Autor principal: Goualard, Frédéric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302591/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50417-5_2