When I recently looked at the state of the art in floating point random number generation, I was surprised to see a common procedure in many programming languages and libraries that is not really a floating-point algorithm: Generate a random integer with bits chosen based on the precision of the format. Convert to …

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I have recently been immersed in the theory and practice of random number generation while working on Arbitrand, a new high-quality true random number generation service hosted in AWS. Because of that, I am starting a sequence of blog posts on randomness and random number generators. This post is the first of the …

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