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Expand Up @@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ be found in any statistics text.
depending on floating-point rounding in the expression
``a + (b-a) * random()``.

.. note::
The value *b* is not included in the range due to the underlying implementation.
The random number N is drawn from a uniform distribution over the half-open interval ``[*a*, *b*\)``.


.. function:: triangular(low, high, mode)

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