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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,sci.math.stat
Subject: Re: Any normally-distributed random number functions?
Keywords: random generator normal density algorithm
Message-ID: <15714@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 5 Apr 91 05:40:11 GMT
References: <1991Apr04.183739.4876@group1.UUCP>
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In article <1991Apr04.183739.4876@group1.UUCP> van@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.