RE: Let's try this ONE more time :-)

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Hi, Al.

You said:

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> 1. For two added rnd numbers the distribution should be the same.
>    It's multiplication that changes the distribution.

In fact, adding two or more random numbers *changes* the distribution.
Old FORTRAN routines used the sum of 12 random numbers (why exactly 12?
Because this was considered enough to get a good distribution) to get a
Gaussian normal distribution.

Regards.

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