/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.commons.math3.random; import org.apache.commons.math3.util.FastMath; /** * This class implements a normalized uniform random generator. * *

Since it is a normalized random generator, it generates values from a uniform distribution * with mean equal to 0 and standard deviation equal to 1. Generated values fall in the range * [-√3, +√3]. * * @since 1.2 */ public class UniformRandomGenerator implements NormalizedRandomGenerator { /** Square root of three. */ private static final double SQRT3 = FastMath.sqrt(3.0); /** Underlying generator. */ private final RandomGenerator generator; /** * Create a new generator. * * @param generator underlying random generator to use */ public UniformRandomGenerator(RandomGenerator generator) { this.generator = generator; } /** * Generate a random scalar with null mean and unit standard deviation. * *

The number generated is uniformly distributed between -&sqrt;(3) and +&sqrt;(3). * * @return a random scalar with null mean and unit standard deviation */ public double nextNormalizedDouble() { return SQRT3 * (2 * generator.nextDouble() - 1.0); } }