Re: Randomly initializing a N-element vector

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 12:53 PM 10/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
> I need to randomly initialize a N-element vector such that
>
>  (a) every element is between 0 and 1
>  (b) the sum of all elements is 1


Umm... give each element a random value between 0.0 and 1.0 (any generator 
will give you that), then scale (divide) all elements by the sum of the 
elements drawn?

Sven



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