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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
>
>
>
>




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