Generating random number within Cuda kernel in a varying range

Question

I am trying to generate random number random numbers within the cuda kernel. I wish to generate the random numbers from uniform distribution and in the integer form, startin

Answer 1

@Robert's example doesn't generate a perfectly uniform distribution (although all the numbers in the range are generated and all the generated numbers are in the range). Both the smallest and largest value have 0.5 the probability of being chosen of the rest of the numbers in the range.

At step 2, you should multiply with the number of values in the range: (largest value - smallest value + 0.999999). *

At step 3, the offset should be (+ smallest value) instead of (+ smallest value + 0.5).

Steps 1 and 4 remain the same.

*As @Kamil Czerski noted, 1.0 is included in the distribution. Adding 1.0 instead of 0.99999 would sometimes result in a number outside of the desired range.