Timeline for Random real numbers that sum up to specific value
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| Dec 27, 2014 at 0:09 | comment | added | Dr. belisarius | @Sungmin No offense. I posted my answer after pondering what kind of distribution the OP could want. Not sure tough. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 0:03 | comment | added | Sungmin | That is correct. In that sense, the problem is ill-defined. As I said earlier, I just wanted to warn the future readers that there might be a subtlety in this problem that was discussed in various other posts in stackoverflow. Did not intend to offend your answer. | |
| Dec 26, 2014 at 23:57 | comment | added | Dr. belisarius | @Sungmin The OP here haven't used the word "uniform" ... | |
| Dec 26, 2014 at 23:51 | comment | added | Sungmin | In the one of the answer of the post I linked above, there is an argument that this approach does not give a certain sense of "uniformly distributed-ness". I still feel the algorithm should be taken in a more rigorous way even though OP does not seem to have a clear definition of randomness. I just want to point out the subtlety of the given problem for the record. | |
| Dec 26, 2014 at 22:55 | history | edited | Dr. belisarius | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2014 at 22:51 | comment | added | Chen Stats Yu |
Aha! I should have noticed that Normalize[,Total] can be used here as a trick in the other answer you gave me.
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| Dec 26, 2014 at 22:43 | history | answered | Dr. belisarius | CC BY-SA 3.0 |