# 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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If you want to exclude both 0 and 10, you can use `prevfloat(10.0)*(1-rand())` instead.  
Same argument you gave applies, the answer being uniform from `(0, prevfloat(10.0)]`, i.e. `(0,10)`.

If you don’t, the probability of getting a 10 on any given draw is `1/2^52 = 2.220446049250313e-16`.

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