According to the internet what you wrote is the distribution of min(random(), random()), but the distribution of the product is different. Product: https://mat

According to the internet what you wrote is the distribution of min(random(), random()), but the distribution of the product is different. Product: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/659254/product-distribution-of-two-uniform-distribution-what-about-3-or-more/ https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/659254/product-dist... Minimum: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/220/how-is-the-minimum-of-a-set-of-iid-random-variables-distributed https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/220/how-is-the-min... I can't explain it either, but I also don't think there is a reason they should look the same.