From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T00:08:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Uniform Random Number Generator

On 5/23/07, Dan Zwell <dzwell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I guess that was a pretty dumb question. But I'm glad I asked it, as I
> have never pondered RNGs that aren't uniform. I'll probably learn about
> the algorithms that generate these other distributions if I ever have time.

Most of these are based on a uniform RNG. They either apply a function
to one or more numbers generated by a uniform random number generator.
Or they use a series of uniform RNs to do a mini-simulation and in the
process generate the required result.

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Rick DeNatale

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