>>>>> "Tuukka" == Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:
Tuukka> On 4 Feb 2002, Raymond Toy wrote:
>> Maxima has a Gaussian random number generator (look in bessel.lisp!),
>> but it's rather odd. It sums up 12 numbers generated from a uniform
Tuukka> Just if someone decides to code a better generator, maybe this helps:
Tuukka> http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletter/clevescorner/spring01_cleve.shtml
Tuukka> Somewhat interesting article that describes algorithms used in the
Tuukka> Matlab RNG.
As a matter of fact, I was going to replace it with the Ziggurat
method because I already have a Lisp implemenation and on my tests it
is far faster than any other method I've implemented.
Ray