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From: manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Re: randN
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Try this link:
http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/bookcpdf/c7-2.pdf

This is part of chapter seven of Numerical Recipes in C. A less specific link 
to the whole book is:
http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/

Chapter 7 deals with random numbers, 7.2 is about normal distributions 
(including some source code).


In article <383904BA DOT AE45DCDE AT mpx DOT com DOT au>, infinity girl <entropic AT mpx DOT com DOT au> 
wrote:
>
>hey everyone,
>
>    i'm wondering if anyone has written {or come across} C functions
>that produce
>random numbers under a Gaussian {normal} distribution?  In other
>languages they
>are usually called randn or randg.  
>
>    it is quite a common thing..has anyone thought about possibly
>including functions
>like this in libm?  
>
>I'm really looking fr something like this in ANSI C, and not in
>a library..I need source code fr portability.
>
>thanks fr any help,
>daniel.

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Manni