From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 23 15:57:08 2004
Subject: Re: randn benchmarks
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
To: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
Cc: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>,    octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:55:52 -0600

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:36:03PM +0100, David Bateman wrote:
> There is also an implementation as a C++ class 
> 
> http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/zigurat.asp
> 
> I don't think Marsaglia is going to reply, give that he was writing
> books in the 60's there is a strong chance he has retired... You'd

>From what I recall he was still active just a few years ago. I think I saw a
few articles by him listed in the Journal of Stat. Software archive at UCLA.

Dirk

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