Hey new to julia and wondering how to augment the bounds of the base.rand() function for Float64 numbers, I’m trying to get (-1,1) as the new min and max. I checked the documentation on this page and it isn’t clear to me how to change typemin(S):typemax(S) for an individual usage of the function. T…

Rather than changing typemin / typemax which affect more than rand(), it’s much safer to define a myrand() = rand() * 2 - 1 function which gives you the range you want without further effects.

Changing the the bounds for base.rand Float outputs

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stevengj June 4, 2024, 7:30pm 5

You could use rand(Uniform(-1,1)) via Distributions.jl.

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Changing the the bounds for base.rand Float outputs

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