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Re:Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know: Reservoir Sa... by dbaupp on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @07:35AM (#5977077)
Most RNGs that generate numbers from 0 to 1 actually just generate a random 64-bit value, and divide by 2^64; which means that they do underflow relatively easily. (This is relatively easily to overcome using a better (& more expensive) random bits -> double algorithm.)

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