[glkindlmann]

Thanks for the additional pointers!

I like the idea of looking at the histogram of exponents: incrementing (by 1) the exponent doubles the width of the interval so should double the number of hits. Conversely the histogram of the significand (or any subset of its bits) should be flat.

[j_not_j]

Beebe publishes a lengthy bibliography.

https://www.netlib.org/tex/bib/prng.pdf

758 pages and counting....

[glkindlmann]

Lengthy indeed. Do you have advice for how to find amongst these the first paper on correctly sampling [0,1) with real-world floating point?