From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Thu Feb 24 16:43:41 2000
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:43:41 -0500
Subject: [Rd] RNG usability
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Brian
>Yes. So use a more reliable option for norm_rand.

ok.  It seems that reliable here refers to the fact that the implementation does
not allow the state of the Box-Muller generator to be queried. I'm not an expert
on these things. Would you recommend one of the the other normal generators on a
theoretical basis too?

Paul

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[Rd] RNG usability
Paul Gilbert