Christopher James Huff wrote:
> 
> > In fact i don't even know if mathematics deal with something like non
> > integer random numbers.
> 
> It does, it doesn't matter if it is integer or not, as long as it is a
> set of specific values. There is a finite number of values that can be
> represented with a double precision variable, with a perfect random
> number generator any one of those values would be equally likely,
> whether or not it had just come up the previous time. Assuming the
> values are evenly spaced, that is...I think. It depends on how you look
> at it and what exactly you want, I guess.
> 
> [...]

All right, but mathematics don't care about double precision so since
there is an infinite number of real numbers between 0 and 1...

Christoph

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