A random number which lies within a specified range (which can, without loss of generality, be taken as [0, 1]), with a uniform distribution.
Uniform Variate
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References
Press, W. H.; Flannery, B. P.; Teukolsky, S. A.; and Vetterling, W. T. "Uniform Deviates." §7.1 in Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 267-277, 1992.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Uniform Variate." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/UniformVariate.html