Re: [Help-gsl] information about gaussian random numbers

[Ralph Silva]

seed = 123456;
r = gsl_rng_alloc(gsl_rng_mt19937);
gsl_rng_set(r, seed);
x = gs_ran_gaussian(r,1);

See
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/gsl-ref.html#Random-Number-Distributionsfor
more details.



On 5/9/06, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear sir/madam,
> I am using the GSL-GNU scientific library, specifically the function
> gsl_ran_gaussian(r,1), to generate gaussian pseudo-random numbers on a
> Linux
> platform (Ubuntu). My question is how can I use a random seed for such
> random
> numbers ?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Josep
>
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Instituto de Matemática - IM
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