Re: [Boost-users] Class template normal_distribution. What is the actually mapping function?

If you look at the code you will see that it uses the Box-Muller method Matthias On Jan 30, 2007, at 2:32 AM, Jeanette Auer wrote:

Does anyone know what is the actual mapping function used by the to map uniform random into the normal distribution? While I suspect it is the Marsaglia's ziggurat algorithm I need to know for certain and I can not find the details on the BOOST site.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jeanette Auer Associate Lecture Dept. Comp. Sci. & Comp. Eng La Trobe University Victoria 3086

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