Re: Normal Dist solved

[Rick Riolo]

My guess is that result should be a double.

Its probably better to have the seed be unsigned int,
maybe long, but I can't recall for sure.

 - r

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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Alessandro Perrone wrote:

> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:44:38 +0200 (METDST)
> From: Alessandro Perrone <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Normal Dist solved 
> 
> Hi all
>  I solved my previous problem with Normal Dist.
> The method is
> -alex {
> int result;
> int seed = 25699870;
> id normalDR, randomGeneratorR;
> randomGeneratorR = [PMMLCG1 create: globalZone setStateFromSeed: seed];
> 
> normalDR = [NormalDistribution create: globalZone
> setGenerator:randomGeneratorR];
> result =  [normalDR getSampleWithMean: 0 withVariance: 0.5];
> printf (" Normal Value ---> %d\n ", result);
> return self;
> 
> }
> 
> Is it right?
> The only problem is that the result is ALWAYS 0!! sigh sigh sigh!!!
> Any ideas?
>                       ALEX
> 
> 
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