[Help-gsl] generating random numbers between two numbers

[Awhan Patnaik]

GSL allows random number generation between the unit interval [0,1]. However
if one has to generate numbers between ANY two real numbers a and b then one
way is the following:
num = a + rand*(b-a) where rand is a random number in the unit interval. Is
this the only way available ? I mean are the statistical properties
preserved in such cases.