Any normally-distributed random number functions?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Fri Apr 5 15:40:11 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr04.183739.4876 at group1.UUCP> van at group1.uucp (Van Bagnol) writes:
>I am looking for a C or Fortran function that would generate a
>pseudorandom variable but with a *normal* distribution instead
>of uniform distribution.

Gee, for all questions of this type the first thing you MUST do is
to see what Knuth had to say about it in Vol. 2 of The Art of
Computer Programming.



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