Any normally-distributed random number functions?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1991Apr5.215418.352 at murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w at astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
>Sci.physics just had a flamewar^h^h^h^h^H^h^h^hdiscussion about
>Numerical Recipies. The general conclusion is to take any canned
>routine with a grain of salt.

Very true, but for those who are not sophisticated enough to analyze a
problem in depth, or lack the time for an exhaustive study, the odds
are very good that NR's code is better than what they would come up
with on their own.
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