From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Random numbers in metapost
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:13:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B3CA38B.7060602@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F4137B7B-44FE-429B-BC05-578514A0CBDC@suddenlink.net>
David Arnold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any strategies for drawing random numbers from
> various statistics distributions in Metapost? For example, say,
> drawing 100 random numbers from a beta distribution?
Assuming you are using mkiv: create a lua function and use its
calculated results to create the metapost code. Metapost only knows
about uniformdeviate and normaldeviate, and metapost is not a good
language to program mathematics in.
Best wishes,
Taco
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2009-12-31 7:08 David Arnold
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