From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T16:41:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Random variable library?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:26:22AM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> The work I'm doing now doesn't strictly require, but would benefit from a
> random number generator that:
>  - obeyed the distribution you want, with the parameters you want

You can do that easily by taking a uniform random variable and feeding
it into the distribution function you want.

>  - spat out numbers between a given minimum and maximum

like   min + rand(max-min+1)   ?

>  - could be configured to return Integers or Floats

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