A Normal / Exponential Random Generator and Histogram Class

Jonathan de Halleux

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A fast random generator with normal or exponential distribution + a histogram class

In this article, you will find a fast generator for Random Variable, namely normal and exponential distributions. It is based on George Marsaglia's and Wai Wan Tsang's work.

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- HistogramDemo.cpp
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- HistogramDemo.h
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- HistogramDemoDoc.cpp
- HistogramDemoDoc.h
- HistogramDemoView.cpp
- HistogramDemoView.h
- HistogramMatlab
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  - HistogramMatlabDlg.cpp
  - HistogramMatlabDlg.h
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    - IGfxd.lib
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- RandomGenerator.cpp
- RandomGenerator.h
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- StdAfx.cpp
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- Histogram.cpp
- Histogram.h
- HistogramDemo.cpp
- HistogramDemo.dsp
- HistogramDemo.dsw
- HistogramDemo.h
- HistogramDemo.rc
- HistogramDemoDoc.cpp
- HistogramDemoDoc.h
- HistogramDemoView.cpp
- HistogramDemoView.h
- HistogramMatlab.cpp
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- HistogramMatlab.h
- HistogramMatlab.rc
- HistogramMatlabDlg.cpp
- HistogramMatlabDlg.h
- ReadMe.txt
- HistogramMatlab.ico
- HistogramMatlab.rc2
- Resource.h
- StdAfx.cpp
- StdAfx.h
- licence.txt
- MainFrm.cpp
- MainFrm.h
- AlgoTools.h
- DPHull.h
- EPSInterface.h
- FileGfxInterface.h
- GDIpInterface.h
- GDIRect.h
- GfxInterface.h
- GLInterface.h
- PathHull.h
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- PGLLinePropPage.h
- PGLLineVer.h
- PGLMap.h
- pglmapproppage.h
- PGLMapVector.h
- PGLMapVectorPropPage.h
- PGLMapZ.h
- pglmapzproppage.h
- PGLMouse.h
- PGLObject.h
- PGLObjectManager.h
- PGLObjectPropPage.h
- PGLPie.h
- PGLPropertySheet.h
- PGLRegion.h
- PGLRegionPropPage.h
- PGLResource.h
- PGLText.h
- pgltextproppage.h
- PGLUtility.h
- PGLView.h
- PGLView2D.h
- StlIGfx.h
- SVGInterface.h
- AlgoToolsd.lib
- GdiPlus.lib
- IGfxd.lib
- PGLd.exp
- PGLd.lib
- RandomGenerator.cpp
- RandomGenerator.h
- HistogramDemo.ico
- HistogramDemo.rc2
- HistogramDemoDoc.ico
- Toolbar.bmp
- Resource.h
- StdAfx.cpp
- StdAfx.h

#ifndef ALGOTOOLS_H
	#define ALGOTOOLS_H

#include "PathHull.h"
#include "DPHull.h"

#endif

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Written By

Jonathan de Halleux

Engineer

United States

Jonathan de Halleux is Civil Engineer in Applied Mathematics. He finished his PhD in 2004 in the rainy country of Belgium. After 2 years in the Common Language Runtime (i.e. .net), he is now working at Microsoft Research on Pex (http://research.microsoft.com/pex).

A Normal / Exponential Random Generator and Histogram Class

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