Talk:Random numbers: Difference between revisions

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I noticed one programming example using   22/7   for the value of pi.   Is this close enough for government work?   Could/should it be flagged   ''in need of improvement''? -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 18:45, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 
== Are we allowed to use a built-in normally distributed RNG? ==
 
TI-BASIC has a command that generates normally distributed random numbers: randNorm(
Are we allowed to use it, or do we have to convert from uniformly distributed?
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