At 3:04 PM -0500 12/10/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007 2:28 PM, AmirBehzad Eslami <behzad.eslami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For some computer-based simulation, i need to
generate random numbers that have a normal distribution.
[snip!]
Unfortunately, because computers are logical, there's no such
thing (at least as of yet) as a truly random number being generated by
a machine.
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Unless the computer is tied to a peripheral that samples nature.
In my ancient past I worked with a x-ray detector and we simply
truncated to the tens digit -- that was pretty random.
tedd
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