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Re:A Brief History of Random Numbers by waldrews on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:37PM (#34828986)
Back in the day, uniform random variates weren't that hard to come by, but if you wanted to simulate some normals, unless you wanted to do double table lookup plus maybe some interpolation, those tables were as convenient as it got.
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Re:A Brief History of Random Numbers by artisanscribble on Friday February 17, 2023 @08:22AM (#34834323)
You say that, but generating uniform variates was itself a whole trick. Famously RAND put a lot of effort into creating a ton of them and publishing them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_1...

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