out of range random number generation in C++ using tr1

Question

I am trying to generate number from a uniform distribution of real number in the range of [0, 1). But compiler is generating numbers which are out of [0, 1) range.

Here is the code:

int main(void) {
    // Solver solve;

    mt19937 mteng;
    mteng.seed(rdtsc());
    uniform_real<double> uniRealD;

    double randomNum;

    for (int index = 0; index < 10; index++){
        randomNum = uniRealD(mteng);

        if(randomNum<0.5)
            cout<<index<<" no. random number is: "<<randomNum<<endl;
        else
            cout<<"number generate is not in range"<<endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

Any comments on what could be wrong with the code? I am using rdtsc() as seed.

Answer 1

I had to get rid of your seed function, rdtsc(), make some includes, introduce a using namespace std, and change a 0.5 to 1.0, and change uniform_real to uniform_real_distribution, but after that, using libc++, I get:

#include <random>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(void) {
    // Solver solve;

    mt19937 mteng;
    mteng.seed(0);
    uniform_real_distribution<double> uniRealD;

    double randomNum;

    for (int index = 0; index < 10; index++){
        randomNum = uniRealD(mteng);

        if(randomNum<1.0)
            cout<<index<<" no. random number is: "<<randomNum<<endl;
        else
            cout<<"number generate is not in range"<<endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

0 no. random number is: 0.592845
1 no. random number is: 0.844266
2 no. random number is: 0.857946
3 no. random number is: 0.847252
4 no. random number is: 0.623564
5 no. random number is: 0.384382
6 no. random number is: 0.297535
7 no. random number is: 0.056713
8 no. random number is: 0.272656
9 no. random number is: 0.477665