From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5849 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2010 10:38:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 5766 invoked by uid 48); 6 Apr 2010 10:38:20 -0000 Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20100406103820.5765.qmail@sourceware.org> X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC References: Subject: [Bug libstdc++/43660] range of random-number generator seems wrong/confusing In-Reply-To: Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org From: "redi at gcc dot gnu dot org" Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00459.txt.bz2 ------- Comment #1 from redi at gcc dot gnu dot org 2010-04-06 10:38 ------- n1933 is ancient history, the RNG pieces have changed significantly In the current draft it says: "A uniform_int_distribution random number distribution produces random integers i, a <= i <= b" So it is a closed interval [a,b] rather than [a,b) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43660