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Knuth (pp. 117-127) discusses several methods of generating sequences
with Normal distribution, and I prefer the Polar Method due to
Box, Muller & Marsaglia, and referenced by Knuth. In SUB5 I combine
integer shuffling, Uniform scaling and shifting, and Gaussian mapping
into a single subroutine.
Stanford Exploration Project
11/18/1997