[Boost-users] [Random] uniform_01

Hi, I was looking at the docs for the uniform_01 distribution: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/random/random-distributions.html#u... I read the following note "Note: The current implementation is buggy, because it may not fill all of the mantissa with random bits." I do not understand the problem. I looked at the code, which does what I expect. Why is it a problem if some of the mantissa bits are not 'random'? As I understand the requirement is the real numbers are uniformly distributed; the bit patterns should not matter provided they represent numbers with the right mathematical properties. Thanks Robert Patterson http://como.cheng.cam.ac.uk/index.php?Page=People&Section=riap2