"d. hall" <dhall@OOI.NET> writes:
> // thus on Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:15:55 -0400, James wrote:
>
> > In my code I needed numbers generated on a normal distribution (ie the
> > bell curve thing) and use floats for that purpose. Anyway, here's the
> > code.
>
> Normal (aka Gaussian) random number generation reminds me... herein is a
> function is heavily bastardized from Numerical Recipes in C.
This is the same code I used. I took the algorithm from Knuth
though. I didn't mean to imply I needed such code; I've had it for a
while and have had interesting success with it :)
Chip
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