Tim Glover <tgl### [at] nettallycom> wrote:
: Most random number generators produce uniform-distributed 
: random numbers, not normally -distributed random numbers.  
: There's an old programmer's trick (at least as old as 
: FORTRAN 4) to approximate normal distributions from uniform
: ones....  take TWO uniform randoms of half the range and add 
: them together to get final value!

  Actually this will not give a normal distribution. If you want a normal
distribution you have to add at least three random numbers or more.

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*_++)for(;i>1;printf("%s",i-70?i&1?"[]":" ":(i=0,"\n")),i/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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