[SciPy-user] random number

[Steve Schmerler]

> You're right. Wasn't seed changing but truly out of bound call.
> Why do you need to generate uniform variate (0,1e38) ?
> Curious about applications !
> 
> JC.
> 

I'm testing an evolution strategy (similar to a genetic algorithm) for
parameter fitting. I need to construct parameter vectors

    p = [p[1], ..., p[n]]

where each p[i] sould be a random number from 0 to 1e200.

I found that the module 'random' works with the 1e39-thing.

    >>> from random import *
    >>> uniform(0,1e39)
    2.3437216521520377e+038
    >>> uniform(0,1e200)
    2.7167859425411156e+199 

But there is another downside here. 

    >>> x=[uniform(0,1e200) for i in range(1000)]

gives nearly 1000 rn's like
    
    2.3107981948610023e+199

All rn's have an order of magnitude of 1e199, but I want also things like
e.g.

    1e23, 1e45, 1e2, ....

Any idea how to do this??? (google should do it :) )

It seems as if 'uniform(min, max)' is implemented as

   random()*max

where 'random()' is a random float out of [0,1).  

bye

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