Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Any normally-distributed random number functions?
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.182451.3399@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 18:24:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr04.183739.4876@group1.UUCP> <15714@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <15714@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>I am looking for a C or Fortran function that would generate a
>>pseudorandom variable but with a *normal* 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 ...

And typically the second thing you do is dig out "Numerical Recipes"
and see what it has to say.  Random Numbers is chapter 7.
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