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gauss
[string] [float] float|vector
gauss is NOT undoable, NOT queryable, and NOT editable.
This command returns random numbers with one, two or three dimensional correlation in a Gaussian distribution. The float arguments to the command scale the output. The distribution is normalized.
Multiple random number streams:
The three stream-based variants of gauss accept a
string parameter which specifies the name of the random number
stream to use when generating random numbers. The behaviour of the
function is identical to the non-stream versions with the exception
that random number generation is performed from the specified rather
than the default random number stream. For more details on multiple
random number streams please see the documentation for the
rand function.
| float | When called with a single float argument vector Otherwise |
gauss 1; // Result: -0.771573 // gauss 4.2; // Result: 0.540686 // gauss <<1,2>>; // Result: <<0.0071681, 0.304371, 0>> // string $s1 = "stream1"; // Result: stream1 // gauss $s1 1; // Result: -0.771573 // gauss $s1 4.2; // Result: 0.540686 // gauss $s1 <<1,2>>; // Result: <<0.0071681, 0.304371, 0>> //