Gaussian RNG?, numerics in general...



Raymond Toy writes:
 > I still think f2cl is a decent solution, but I guess I'm in the
 > minority here.  There are Fortran implementations for just about
 > everything we would want and I suspect that f2cl could convert all of
 > them correctly.

It may be a minority, but we are at least two :-)

 > 
 > I think there's more than enough for everyone to do with maxima, the
 > symbolic math program, instead of maxima, the amazingly fast number
 > cruncher.  I'm more than happy with slow, correct numbers.  If I want
 > fast, I'll use octave, matlab, scilab, or whatever.

How true!

Andreas
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