# How to create a random Uniform Distribution between (but excluding) 0 and 10?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-a-random-uniform-distribution-between-but-excluding-0-and-10/21908>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [March 15, 2019, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-a-random-uniform-distribution-between-but-excluding-0-and-10/21908 "2019-03-15T10:54:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-a-random-uniform-distribution-between-but-excluding-0-and-10/21908/22 "2019-03-17T11:31:45Z")

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> [@StefanKarpinski](#):
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> Just to try to prevent this thread being overwhelming for a newcomer,

I apologize for the derail. I hope it is at least interesting 🙂

> [@Elrod](#):
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> I imagine this would also be computationally expensive to do with only 32 bits, or.

I would take `trailing_zeros(u)` as exponent (that is exponentially distributed, as required), shift right by 9 bit and fill in the sign and exponent.

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