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Message: [QUOTE="Carsten Hansen, post: 1475468"] A normal distribution has infinite range. So, generating random numbers between 0 and 1 with a Normal distribution doesn't make sense. Yes, you can have a truncated Normal distribution, but that is not what you are writing. I'm well aware that there are non-uniform random number distributions. In the fall I corrected two errors in Knuth's Vol. 2 about non-uniform RNG. I have the check to prove it. I commented about the code which is intended to generate a uniform distribution. I doesn't as others have pointed out. As for my credentials, I have a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Penn State '89). Carsten Hansen [/QUOTE]