POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Smooth random : Re: Smooth random Server Time
10 Aug 2024 23:17:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Smooth random  
From: Nieminen Juha
Date: 11 Oct 1999 11:15:29
Message: <3801ff11@news.povray.org>
Margus Ramst <mar### [at] peakeduee> wrote:
: AFAIK, this is normal distribution.

  No, normal distribution is distributed in the form e^(-x^2). You can get
an approximation by calculating the average of at least three random numbers
(the more the numbers, the better the approximation, but three is usually
close enough).

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


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