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Comment by omoikane

If I am reading this right, a range is expressed as a distance between the minimum and maximum values, and in the Monte Carlo part a number is generated from a uniform distribution within that range[1].

But if I just ask the calculator "1~2" (i.e. just a range without any operators), the histogram shows what looks like a normal distribution centered around 1.5[2].

Shouldn't the histogram be flat if the distribution is uniform?

[1] https://github.com/filiph/unsure/blob/123712482b7053974cbef9...

[2] https://filiph.github.io/unsure/#f=1~2

parent omoikane 1 year ago

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