On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Hadidi, Lars < lhadidi@students.uni-mainz.de> wrote:

I'd like to know which method is employed here.

Have you tried reading the implementation ( http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/boost/random/normal_distribution.hpp)? Hint: The first comment after the includes is // tables for the ziggurat algorithm

Recently, it changed to Ziggurat's method. On 2015-06-10 17:59, Hadidi, Lars wrote:

Hello,

I tried to find out which method is used by the boost library to transform random numbers from a random number engine to the Gaussian Distribution.

There are the Box-Muller-Method, Marsaglia's Polar Method and Ziggurat's algorithm out there, but i could not determine which of those is actually used by

boost::normal_distribution<double>​

I'd like to know which method is employed here.

Thanks for reply in advance,

sincerely,

Lars

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