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Foil 6 Generation of Random Numbers
From CPS615 Foils -- set D:Statistics and Random Numbers CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. byGeoffrey C. Fox
Everything can be derived from uniform random numbers in the range [0,1] = [r1, r2]
Such random numbers are supplied by all serious scientific computers