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by ouid 1531 days ago
Choosing a random float doesn't mean very much without a distribution.
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Randomness is not a property of numbers but of distributions.
Actually I believe it is better to say randomness is a property of a sequence of numbers. So a "random sequence" has members chosen independently of each other, but all from the same probability distribution. And random number generators create random sequences which follow a given distribution.