From: Mike <m3ha11@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T16:06:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Random variable library?

Martin DeMello  wrote:

>> Anyone know of a Ruby library that defines random variables[1]?  I'd like
>> access to a variety of distributions.  

>
>http://users.rcn.com/m3ha11/ruby/Rand.rb looks good to me

Heh... I was going to say that.  :-)

It's just a collection of various distributions that I've seen in different places.
Like Joel said, it starts with Kernel.rand, so it's ultimately no better than that.
But, it should give you different distributions that you need.
-- 
Mike Hall