How do you generate a random double uniformly distributed between 0 and 1 from C++?

Question

How do you generate a random double uniformly distributed between 0 and 1 from C++?

Of course I can think of some answers, but I\'d like to know what the standard pr

Answer 1

You could try the Mersenne Twister algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister

It has a good blend of speed and randomness, and a GPL implementation.