A short reader about exploring randomness The Shape of Floating Point Random Numbers [Updated 10/18/2012: Fixed a typo in which mantissa was replaced with exponent.] Over the weekend, Viral Shah updated Julia’s implementation of randn() to give a 20% speed boost. Because we all wanted …

Random and floating point bits

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