Thread Subject: help

i have to generate a random number in an infinite range. could u please help me?

"jean " <atango1234@yahoo.fr> wrote in message <hds8e2$447$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> i have to generate a random number in an infinite range. could u please help me?

How about the following

result=1/rand-1/rand; %A randum number in [-inf,inf]

"jean " <atango1234@yahoo.fr> wrote in message <hds8e2$447$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> i have to generate a random number in an infinite range. could u please help me?

Here's another one

result=log(log(1/rand));

"jean " <atango1234@yahoo.fr> wrote in message <hds8e2$447$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> i have to generate a random number in an infinite range. could u please help me?

You told us the range, but does it have to have a specific distribution? Hopefully not uniform. 8-)

>> randn(1)

gives a random number from the unit normal, which has an infinite range.