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ryanmelon

Since Pi is in between 0 and 1 inclusively, why the uniform random variable we pick is less than 1 although a single number would not influence the whole result? Is it because of the random number generator?

Ace

Oh... wow this is very clever: you can essentially scale a uniform random variable to one that's not uniform by using its CDF!