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5 Jul 2024 12:03:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Gaussian random numbers  
From: Ib Rasmussen
Date: 1 Jul 2001 16:56:48
Message: <3B3F8EB9.474ABCA3@ibras.dk>
Warp wrote:
> 
> Reusser <reu### [at] chorusnet> wrote:
> :   sqrt(-2*log(rand(RSR))/log(e))*cos(2*pi*rand(RSR))
> 
>   Isn't log(e) equal to 1?

Not on my calculator. Perhaps you are thinking of ln(e), which is equal
to 1.
log(e) is 0.443429448....

/Ib


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