Standard Uniform
Restricting and, the resulting distribution U(0,1) is called a standard uniform distribution.
One interesting property of the standard uniform distribution is that if u1 has a standard uniform distribution, then so does 1-u1. This property can be used for generating antithetic variates, among other things.
Read more about this topic: Uniform Distribution (continuous)
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