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From: Diab Jerius
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:12

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yet another RNG question:
can anyone comment upon the robustness of the `ranlib' package distributed
via STATLIB?  in particular it generates gaussian deviates according
to:
               Ahrens, J.H. and Dieter, U.                              
               Extensions of Forsythe's Method for Random               
               Sampling from the Normal Distribution.                   
               Math. Comput., 27,124 (Oct. 1973), 927 - 937.            

thanks in advance.
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From: dj@cfa.harvard.edu (Diab Jerius)
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Subject: more random number generator questions...
Summary: ranlib STATLIB random numbers
Message-ID: <1992Jul29.181226.15052@cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:12:26 GMT
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA
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