Re: serie of random number
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- Subject: [mg21252] Re: [mg21202] serie of random number
- From: Rob Pratt <rpratt at email.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 02:28:13 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Just divide each element by the sum:
(t=Table[Random[],{n}])/Plus@@t
By the way, Random[] defaults to real numbers between 0 and 1.
Rob Pratt
Department of Operations Research
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
rpratt at email.unc.edu
http://www.unc.edu/~rpratt/
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Raphael Suire wrote:
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> Dear list,
>
> maybe a naive question !!
>
> i want to compute a serie of random number
> Table[random[Real,{0,1}],{n}]]
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> which sum is always one
>
> How can i do ??
>
>
> Raphael Suire
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