From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 25 02:18:47 1996
Subject: any one know about function "randn" in matlab?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Chaturapadh Nakavachara <windy at ksc9 dot th dot com>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 02:18:46 -0600

Chaturapadh Nakavachara <windy at ksc9 dot th dot com> wrote:

: any ony know about function "randn" in matlab?
: this is build in function in matlab so ....
: would you mind to tell  me which function is compat. with this function in
: octave :)

If all you want to do is get a sequence of normally distributed random
numbers, you can set the distribution to be normal using the command

  rand ("normal");

then use rand() to get the sequence.

The next release of Octave will have rand and randn, and the normal
and uniform distributions will have independent generators.

jwe