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

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**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, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-a-random-uniform-distribution-between-but-excluding-0-and-10/21908/20 "2019-03-17T01:51:55Z")

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Just to try to prevent this thread being overwhelming for a newcomer, let me just highlight the straightforward answer:

```julia
10*(1-rand())

```

Analysis:

- `rand()` is uniform from `[0, 1)`
- `1-rand()` is uniform from `(0, 1]`
- `10*(1-rand())` is uniform from `(0, 10]`

This is a totally fine, simple answer. Is it perfectly uniformly distributed? Meh, maybe, maybe not but the chance that it matters for this use case is negligible.

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