Random numbers

The goal of this task is to generate a 1000-element array (vector, list, whatever it's called in your language) filled with normally distributed random numbers with a mean of 1.0 and a standard deviation of 0.5

C++

#include <cstdlib>   // for rand
#include <cmath>     // for atan, sqrt, log, cos
#include <algorithm> // for generate_n

double const pi = 4*std::atan(1.0);

// simple functor for normal distribution
class normal_distribution
{
public:
  normal_distribution(double m, double s): mu(m), sigma(s) {}
  double operator() // returns a single normally distributed number
  {
    double r1 = (std::rand() + 1.0)/(RAND_MAX + 1.0); // gives equal distribution in (0, 1]
    double r2 = (std::rand() + 1.0)/(RAND_MAX + 1.0);
    return mu + sigma * std::sqrt(-2*std::log(r1))*std::cos(2*pi*r2);
  }
private:
  double mu, sigma;
};

int main()
{
  double array[1000];
  std::generate_n(array, 1000, normal_distribution(1.0, 0.5));
}

Java

double[] list = new double[1000];
Random rng = new Random();
for(int i = 0;i<list.length;i++) {
  list[i] = 1.0 + 0.5 * rng.nextGaussian()
}

IDL

result = 1.0 + 0.5*randomn(seed,1000)

Tcl

proc nrand {} {return [expr sqrt(-2*log(rand()))*cos(4*acos(0)*rand())]}
for {set i 0} {$i < 1000} {incr i} {lappend result [expr 1+.5*nrand()]}

Python

import random
randList = [random.gauss(1, .5) for i in range(1000)]