thanks... my mistake with the byte thing..
What I want to do is to generate normally distributed random numbers,
where the range is humongous (fe: 2^1000)
I just tried :
>$n = 1000
> p grandom(3) * ((2**$n)/2) + sqrt((2**$n))/2
[-1.9906798e+300 -3.9087665e+300 -5.6272303e+300]


those seem like a random numbers !! but why negative ?
Do you think I should use Math::BigInt

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Craig DeForest
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The issue is that grandom doesn't work properly on integer types, since it 
> makes a distribution with mean 0 and stddev 1.  It's a bit awkward, but you 
> can use
>
>  $vals = (grandom($n) * $stdev + $mean)->rint->byte
>
> instead.
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2013, at 8:59 AM, mraptor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is there are way to generate random values based on Normal distribution.
>> The same like rnorm() in R-language.
>>
>>> round( rnorm(3,mean=2^n/2,sd=sqrt(2^n)/2) )
>> [1] 524758 524540 524647
>>
>> I see there is grandom() funtion, but it requires some sort of lib (ndtri) ?
>>
>> pdl> p grandom(byte,1)
>>
>> ndtri domain error
>> [0]
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
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