[jira] [Commented] (RNG-33) Consider adding convenience methods to UniformRandomProvider

["Gilles (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gilles commented on RNG-33:
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{{nextDouble()}} in {{RandomUtils}} has a different semantics than in Commons RNG's {{UniformRandomProvider}} (and JDK's {{Random}}).

The other methods' functionality (uniform sampling from a specified range) is available in the "commons-rng-sampling" module (see [ContinuousUniformSampler|http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-rng/commons-rng-sampling/javadocs/api-1.0/org/apache/commons/rng/sampling/distribution/ContinuousUniformSampler.html] and [DiscreteUniformSampler|http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-rng/commons-rng-sampling/javadocs/api-1.0/org/apache/commons/rng/sampling/distribution/DiscreteUniformSampler.html]).

> Consider adding convenience methods to UniformRandomProvider
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: RNG-33
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RNG-33
>             Project: Commons RNG
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Duncan Jones
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Commons Lang maintains a class called [{{RandomUtils}}|http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang3/RandomUtils.html], which supplements the methods offered by {{java.util.Random}}.
> If similar methods were added to {{UniformRandomProvider}}, we could deprecate {{RandomUtils}} in favour of using RNG.



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