On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote:
> For y an extended precision number, ?y is computed
> by t=.?y1 where y1 is a little bigger than y,
> repeating until t is less than y.  (The same y1
> is used for a given y.)  Assuming that ?m produces
> uniform random numbers between 0 and m-1, does
> this process give uniform random numbers between
> 0 and y-1?

yes:

if they were not uniformly random then ?m could not have been uniformly random.

-- 
Raul
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