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== Use _which_ formula? ==
The task description says "use this formula" and links to a Wikipedia section that contains half a dozen formulas. Can we clarify which formula should be used? Or else change the link text to something like "use a formula such as one of these"? [[User:JoeStrout|JoeStrout]] ([[User talk:JoeStrout|talk]]) 18:58, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
:You are correct, it's misleading. However, the task asks simply to produce normally distributed random numbers, and there are many ways to do this. Any one should be acceptable, I think. I changed the task description accordingly. If you don't know which one to pick, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Muller_transform Box-Muller transform] is probably the simplest, though not the fastest. [[User:Eoraptor|Eoraptor]] ([[User talk:Eoraptor|talk]]) 20:20, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
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