Re: generating random number
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- Subject: [mg34493] Re: generating random number
- From: "Borut L" <gollum at email.si>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 03:32:52 -0400 (EDT)
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If I were you, I would look into Numerical Recipes (www.nr.com), where some space is dedicated to random number generating. An arbitary PDF can be effectively delt with a cover function. Bye, Borut Levart "ester" <Ester.Piedipalumbo at na.infn.it> wrote in message news:acferi$rmd$1 at smc.vnet.net... > > dear Sirs, > my name is Ester Piedipalumbo and I am a post doc at the phisics dep. of > Naples University. > I would like to know if there is something for generating random number > according an arbitary PDF (where arbitrary means that it is not standard, > but I know, of cource) > Thank a lot > best regrds > Ester > > > >