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a – doubleInput
On entry: the mean , of the distribution.
b – doubleInput
On entry: the standard deviation , of the distribution. If b is negative, the distribution of the generated numbers – though not the actual sequence – is the same as if the absolute value of b were used.
6 Error Indicators and Warnings
8 Further Comments
The example program prints the first five pseudorandom real numbers from a Normal distribution with mean 1.0 and standard deviation 1.5, generated by nag_random_normal (g05ddc) after initialization by nag_random_init_repeatable (g05cbc).